ONE Milano

 The arrival of the ONE Milano today, October 2, would have been just another routine call for the Premier Alliance's Asia-North America EC3 service. The 365.94 meter long Ultra size ship would normally tie up at the northern most end of the South End Container Terminal (SECT) Pier 41, where the two tallest container cranes are positioned. Of the seven cranes at the terminal, operated by PSA as the Atlantic Hub, the two shortest cranes are at the southernmost end, Pier 42. Ships of this size are stacked so high with deck cargo that the smallest cranes are not high enough to clear the top tier of containers. 

Today however there was already a ship at Pier 41 - the diminutive Nolhan Ava on its weekly run from St-Pierre et Miquelon and Argentia, NL. It docked at Pier 41 in order to use the RoRo ramp there and to work container cargo. That meant that the ONE Milano tied up at mid-berth, spanning the remaining part of Pier 41 and most of Pier 42.

 The ONE Milano used one of the mid-size cranes to work the fore part of the ship, leaving minimal clearance when lifting over the highest stacks.

The ONE Milano works for Ocean Network Express Ltd but is still owned by K-Line, an ONE partner (with MOL and NYK). It was built in 2018  at the Hiroshima yard of Imabari Shipyard Co Ltd as the Milano Bridge and was renamed in 2022. The 150,706 gt, 146,931 dwt ship has a capacity of 13,900 TEU with 800 reefer plugs.

I did get to see the entire ship when it was here on June 15.

 

 It was full loaded (at least by volume) on that trip. 

Having sailed from Colombo September 3, it averaged a steady 15.2 knots via the Cape of Good Hope en route to Halifax. It is due to sail this evening for New York. 

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PSA Halifax - more

 Following yesterday's (June 16) account of doings at PSA Halifax Atlantic Gateway, I updated the post when the MSC Sagitta III sailed this morning, well loaded. Instead of sailing for Freeport, Bahamas the ship sailed for Montreal. It had also arrived from Montreal - raising more questions about its actual service route. It is still listed as an "Extra Vessel" on MSC's website, with a destination of Freeport, and as Halifax Feeder on the Port of Halifax site.

 

In contrast to yesterday's photo when the ship had no containers on deck, the ship is well loaded today, but not to St.Lawrence River draft.

Arriving today, June 27 the ship ONE Milano is another of the "M" class of ships on the Premier Alliance Asia-North America EC 3 service. It departed from Colombo May 20 and tracked south of the Cape of Good Hope.

Built as the Milano Bridge in 2018 by Imabari Shipyard Co Ltd, Hiroshima yard, it was renamed ONE Milano in 2022. The 150,706 gt, 146,931 dwt ship has a capacity of 13,900 TEU with 800 reefer plugs. It is owned by Japanese investors associated with K-Line, but is managed by Ocean Network Express Pte Ltd of Singapore.

Things have been quiet at PSA's other terminal - PSA Fairview Cove - but they picked up this morning with the arrival of Oceanex Sanderling on its weekly call from St.John's.

The ship appears unusually well loaded. Of note Oceanex containers have been showing up in large numbers on CN Rail trains recently. This may be because one of the two Oceanex ships on the Montreal / St.John's route, Ocean Avalon, was in refit at Méchins, QC from May 25 June 13 and returned to Montreal, arriving May 15. Some of its cargo, which could not be handled by fleet mate Oceanex Connaigra, would certainly have been re-routed by the Oceanex Sanderling to Halifax and sent west by train.
 

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