Cargoes in Quantity

 The Port of Halifax is known as a container port, although not huge on the wortld scale, it did exceed the half million TEU number in 2023 handling 546,143 TEU. This was down significantly from 600,700 in 2022 and 595,755 in 2021. Total figures for 2024 are not in yet, but seem likely to fall below the 500k mark.

The port also ships and and receives bulk cargoes, moslty export gypsum and import fuels.

Today, January 12, there are two ships in the category for bulk cargoes: one export and one import.

The export cargo is a large shipment of soy loading from the grain elevator to the bulk carrier Ceci at Pier 28.

Ship managers Minoa Marine Ltd of Marousi, Greece display the letter "M" on the ship's bow. All thirteen ships in the fleet are owned by single ship companies.

 The Ceci is a gearless bulker of 42,665 gt, 82,338 dwt same from Oshima Shipbuilding in Saiki, Japan in 2009. Built to the shipyard's J-Max design it is also designated as a Kamsarmax bulker. Due to its dimensions of 224.9m length overall and 32.3m breadth it can load at Kamsar, Guinea, a major bauxite port, which is restricted to ships of 239m overall length. Also the ship fits within the maximum dimensions for the Panama Canal of 294m x 32.31m.

The Ceci was deliverd with the name Fortune Miracle and in 2012 was renamed Magic Argo. It received its current name in late 2023 when it was acquired by its current owner for US$17.75 mn.

A rare cargo of heavy fuel oil arrived overnight at the Nova Scotia Power Corporation's Tuft's Cove generating station on the Narrows, opposite Pier 9. The plant normally burns natural gas, but keeps heavy oil on hand in case of interruption or shortage. This latest cargo arrived from Texas City on the Marshal Islanads flag tanker Bosporos.

The Bosporos is a MidRange 1 tanker of 23,310 gt, 39,590 dwt built in 2007 by Hyundai Mipo in Ulsan, South Korea. It is operated by the 100 ship strong Tsakos Shipping and Trading SA based near Piraeus, Greece. The Tsakos Group is involved in numerous shipping related businesses, and with ships of all types. One its companies is Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd (or TEN Ltd) separately listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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