Tanker In - Tanker Out

 Jag Prachi

The Imperial Oil berth was kept busy today, May 2, as the coastal tanker Algoscotia sailed with refined product for regional distribution, first for Corner Brook. After waiting at an outer anchorage since yesterday the product tanker Jag Prachi promptly made its way in to the same dock with more refined product from Antwerp, Belgium.

 

 

As the ship's name implies it is owned in India and flies the Indian flag. India has a substantial shipping industry, but its ships are rare callers in Halifax. The 29,672 gt, 51,486 dwt ship was built in 2013 by Hyundai Mipo, Ulsan. It was originally named Lady Malou and took its present name in 2023 when acquired by Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd.

 

 The tugs Atlantic Willow (aft) and Atlantic Spruce (forward) shepherded the ship to number 3 oil dock where it tied up starboard side to. (Most ships berth port side to at that dock.)

 

Nordic Moon

 The crude oil tanker Nordic Moon sailed from anchorage in Bedford Basin this afernoon giving the destination as New York. The ship arrived in Halifax April 25, with the name Goldway, having unloaded a cargo at Irving Oil's Canaport monobuoy off Saint John, NB. As reported here, it was recently sold by Eastern Pacific Shipping to Nordic American Tankers Ltd and came here to complete the transfer. Over the next few days the ship's funnel was painted over and its new name painted on bow and stern.

The previous owner's banner had been painted over before arriving here, but the funnel, including the huge exhaust gas scrubber housing, was repainted while at anchor. It now appears as a single cerulean blue hue, which is not typical of Nordic American ships. It may have to do with the lease back charter that was part of the acquisiton deal.

Nordic American Tankers Ltd, founded in Bermuda in 1995, now has twenty-one Suezmax size crude oil tankers in its fleet.  

I believe the company may trace its roots back to a similarly named company (with the same funnel marks) that operated the offshore storage tanker Nordic Apollo and the shuttle tanker Nordic Challenger that served the Panuke oil field off Nova Scotia in the early 1990s.
 See January 21, 2010 and December 12, 2018 

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