The multi-purpose general cargo ship Unistar arrived this morning, April 14, at Pier 9C to offload aircraft components from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Despite the pier being full of wind farm parts and pieces, enclosed in whire wrap, there was still room to land to plane parts to waiting trucks.
The Unistar is 6351 gt, 9688 dwt ship built initially in 2012 by Jiangsu Yangzi Changbo Shipbuilding in Jiangjiang, China, and completed by Volharding, Foxhol. It started off with the name Sinus Roris but was renamed Thorco Autora later in 2012 and became Unistar in 2027. It is equipped with portable tween decks (some of which can be seen stowed on deck) and two 60 tonne SWL cranes, The cranes can work in tandem for a 160 tonne lift. The ship can also carry 258 TEU on deck and 210 TEU below.
In the late afternoon the tanker Canal Street arrived from Antwerp, Belgium with refined product for Imperial Oil.
The ship was delivered in 2012 by Onomichi Zosen with the name Pacific Topaz, which it carried until 2014. It is a typical long range tanker of 28,426 gt, 49,993 dwt.
Its name is likely from the well known street in Lower Manhattan, New York, but there is also a Canal Street on the Dartmouth side of Halifax harbour. It was the site of an ambitious project to link Halifax harbour with the Bay of Fundy, using an ancient canoe route. Portages were to be replaced with locks and access to the Canal in Dartmouth Cove was via an inclined plane. The project began in 1826, was in used by 1856 but was not completed until 1861. It was closed in 1871 with the advent of railroads.
The inclind plane has been replicated as a static display and parts of the inland locks have been preserved. Canal Street is a short street roughly parallel to the canal entrance / outfall.
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