Morning Prosperity

 

Auto carriers carry cars of many models and brands, and those ships that are equipped for RoRo cargo can handle a wide assortment of other cargo. Halifax's Autoport handles mostly automobiles, and sends the imports on to destination by rail (Autoport Ltd is owned by CN Rail) or truck (CN also owns a specialist auto haul truck company).

There is also RoRo cargo that is not handled through Autoport. Some of that traffic is handled by PSA Halifax through their Fairview Cove terminal and the Atlantic Hub (South End Container Terminal). Atlantic Container Line (ACL) is the primary RoRo carrier [see yesterday's post] at Fairview Cove.

Oceanex, with its weekly service to St.John's takes on and discharges RoRo cargo at Fairview Cove and handles cars (generally new cars) at Autoport. 

This week the Oceanex Sanderling remained in port Friday night (October 31) and made a rare Saturday (November 1) departure for St.John's - likely due to the passing post tropical storm.

 TSMI makes its weekly trips to Argentia and St-Pierre et Miquelon from the South End Container Terminal and their ship, the Nolhan Ava, uses the RoRo ramp at Pier 39 / 41 (no longer visible from shore) which was built as part of the original Halterm container terminal. RoRo cargo can include vehicles from France.

Pier 9C in the Richmond Terminal, operated by Logistec, handles the rest of the RoRo traffic which can consist of the proverbial "soup to nuts" of construction, mining, forestry and other industrial machinery and equipment.

Today's (November 2) visitor at Pier 9C was the Morning Prosperity with the usual array of identifiable and unidentifiable cargo. The ship, belonging to the Eukor fleet, is operating on parent company Wallenius Wilhelmsen's North Atlantic route from Antwerp, Goteborg, Bremerhaven and Southampton and on to US east coast ports. 

 Hyundai Samho built the ship in 2017 with a gross tonnage of 66,802 and deadweight tonnage of 22.438, with a capacity of 7400 Car Equivalent Units. It is equipped with a stern ramp of 150 tonnes capacity and a smaller side ramp.

 Aside from the usual JCBs and wheeled cargo, two giant pipe joints or valves arrived secured to a MAFI trailer and were backed down to the pier (which, due to the state of the tide, was nearly level with the ship's main cargo deck.)

 On completion of work at Pier 9C at mid-day the ship moved to Autoport. It offloaded new cars there and sailed early this evening (November 2) for New York.

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