Crossroads

 Halifax was a cross roads this afternoon, February 9 with ship arrivals and departures all happening in the mid to late afternoon. 

Outbound was the autocarrier Don Carlos (see yesterday's post), After discharging automobiles at Autoport last night it moved over to Pier 9C this morning to unload RoRo cargo. There was the usual mix of industrial machinery - most of it wheeled, but some on trailers.

On leaving this afternoon the ship took the eastern or main channel allowing the inbound ONE Falcon to take the deeper Western Channel.

Arriving on THE Alliance's EC5 service from Colombo. The ONE Falcon made the trip in just over a month sailing from Colombo January 8. To avoid the high risk Red Sea, the ship sailed the long route around Africa, passing the Cape of Good Hope, reported off Cape Town  January 30.

Built by Japan Marine United, Kure in 2017 as NYK Falcon the 146,287 gt, 138,907 dwt ship has a capacity of 14,026 TEU. It adopted its current name (and paint scheme) in 2021.

Making its way slowly inbound to PSA Fairview Cove, the ZIM Virginia allowws the ONE ship time to turn off Pier 41, and for tugs to finish up with the next outbound - the autocarrier Emden which did not get away from Autoport before the light failed.

I was sorry to miss the Emden, just delivered in September 2023, a 7,000 CEU vessel powered by LNG and on long term charter to Volkswagen. A sister ship, Wolfsburg is presently loading in Emden.

ZIM Virginia is owned by Ymir International Ltd a subsidiary of ZIM and flies the flag of Israel. It was built in 2002 by Hyundai, Ulsan and measures 53,453 grt, 66, 686 dwt and carries 4839 TEU. The ship is on the ZCA service and is east bound for the Mediterranean, having called here westbound February 2. It has since called in New York and Norfolk.

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