Ships of the Durch company Royal Wagenborg are well known at St.Lawrence River ports where they load "forest products" - generally paper, but also aluminum ingots. They have a variety of ships including stern and side loaders as well as the more common , multi-purpose, open-hatch, crane equipped type. They generally trade to North European ports in Ireland, England and France. Thw company runs more than 160 ships in
Last year, when Atlantic Container Line stopped handling the RoRo cargoes of aircraft components, manufactured in Northern Ireland, a variety of spot charter general cargo ships have landed the parts by ship's cranes at Pier 9C. Since Wagenborg ships are regularly crossing the Atlantic - usually light - they would be a likely carrier depending on availability.
Today, April 27, saw the arrival in Halifax from Belfast, of Wagenborg's Amazoneborg, a 11,864 gt, 17,355 dwt ship built in 2007 by Hudong Zhonghua, Shanghai. It is a multi-purpose type with all the usual features of open hatch (no overhanging of hatches over holds - no understow), fully box shaped holds, double hull, moveable pontoon tween decks and the other typical features, including de-humidified holds and three 60 tonne SWL deck cranes (partly combinable). It is a two hold ship, with hydraulically operated pontoon hatches. It is also ice classed and can carry containers in the hold and on deck, but no container capacity is listed.
The ship tied up at Pier 9C where there was just room enough to land what appears to be a fuselage. (Many wind generator monopiles take up most of the open pier space.)
The component sits on its own multi-axle trailer, which will require special permits to travel on the highway,and then probably only in the middle of the night.
It only took a few hours for the ship to land the component, and it was ready sail in less than five hours. When it let go from the pier it did not use a tug, and headed directly for Bedford Basin to turn and head for sea.
The ship's next port is given as Sept-Iles, QC where it will likely load aluminum ingots.
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