Atlantic Cartier - I was wrong

1. Atlantic Cartier passes the flare and steam stacks of the Esso refinery in 2009. But it did have a real fire in Hamburg and will not returning to service as fast as I had predicted.

My June 6 post citing the miraculous recovery of Atlantic Cartier was apparently wrong. Usually reliable sources were not reliable this time. The ship is still sitting in Hamburg and ACL has arranged for substitutes from the Grimaldi fleet.
So far these appear to be Grande Angola and Grande Togo, two nice bright yellow ConRos, both will be here during June.

Atlantic Cartier - miraculous recovery

 1. File photo of Atlantic Cartier from 2009.

The "fire ravaged" container ship Atlantic Cartier is due to sail from Hamburg on Saturday June 8 for Gothenburg, then resume its Atlantic Container Line spot, with a due date in Halifax of June 13 or thereabouts.
Damage from the May 2 fire was serious, but apparently not fatal, and a massive cleanup and repair effort has been carried out in a month. Therefore the previously announced replacement Grande Angola which had been due June 10 will not be coming after all.

CSAV Rungue - first replacement

Atlantic Container Line brought CSAV Rungue to Halifax today as part of their efforts to replace Atlantic Cartier after the serious fire in Hamburg on May 1.
CSAV Rungue is a pure container ship, without RoRo capability, so it is only a stopgap to deal with a backlog that built up when the Cartier fire took that ship out of the normal ACL rotation of five ships.  The fire, which damaged 30 of the 70 cars aboard did structural damage to the ship which is still in Hamburg. Later reports indicate that firefighters had to order in more foam after exhausting local supplies. Longshoreman were able to remove containers containing uranium hexaflouride, ethanol and ammunition before the fire spread from the car deck area.
CSAV Rungue (Liberian flag) was built in 2008 as Priomavera by Thyssen Nordseewerke in Emden, Germany and is owned by Maritime GmbH in Elsfleth. It has a container capacity of 3,476 TEU on 36,087 gross tons and 42,594 deadweight. The initials "CSAV" in its name stand for Compagnia Sud Americana de Vapores. They  have the ship on charter, but are reconfiguring several lines, and had the ship available.
Next month another ship, Grande Angola, a ConRo from Grimaldi Group (parent of ACL), will be here for ACL.