Pusan meet Busan

 1.Pusan, berths with tugs at Fairview Cove east whileBusan Express lies at Fairview Cove west.

There are eight container ships incorporating "Pusan" in their names, as shipping lines favour major world ports as namesakes. There is only one incorporating the alternative spelling "Busan". That two of them should meet is perhaps not remarkable given the numbers. However it did happen today in Halifax.
Busan Expres arrived this morning. It is a post-Panamax ship of 75,590 gross tons and 85,810 deadweight, with a capacity of 6750 TEU. One of the big ships calling here, it berthed at the west end of Fairview Cove to be serviced by the post-Panamax and super post-Panamax cranes.
This afternoon Pusan arrived. It is of the more typical size, at 53,324 gross tons and 62,057 deadweight tonnes and capacity of 4688 TEU. It was built in 1997. As the smaller ship, it can be served by the smaller cranes at the east berth.
Both ships are German flag vessels, chartered in by Hapag-Lloyd. Busan Express is owned by Norddeutsche Schuldt and has adopted a Hapag-Lloyd name and colours for the charter.

Puisan is owned by F. Laiesz, the inheritors of the famous Flying P line from the days of sail, when all their ships names began with the letter P. They have stuck with this scheme ever since, and for a shorter term charter, the ship has not been renamed. It previously carried the names MSC Kenya (to 2011) and Pusan Senator (to 2007) on earlier charters.
Both ships were built in Korea, Busan Express at Daewoo, Goeje, and Pusan at Hyundai, Ulsan.

Busy weekend in Halifax

No sooner did Vectis Harrier [see previous posting] sail than Atlantic Compass arrived. In fact the ships passed in the Basin after Compass cleared the Narrows.

1. Some close quarters work as Atlantic Compass sails the Narrows. The new Pier 9 C extension is to the right.

2. Algoma Dartmouth had just completed bunkering Vectis Harrier and waited for Atlantric Compass to clear the Narrows, before heading to the cable ship Wave Sentinel.

Vietnam Express had arrived early in the morning and in the evening moved out to anchor to free her berth for Pusan. Atlantic Compass sailed Saturday night.

3. Pusan steaming in on Saturday afternoon. She is on chartter to Hapag-Lloyd.

Canada Express arrived early this morning (Sunday) taking Pusan's place, and Vietnam Express moved  from anchorage back in to Fairview.

4. Vietnam Express has her anchor up ready to back alongside.

Also on Sunday the autocarrier Seven Seas Highway arrived at Autoport and tow tankers sailed from Imperial Oil. The chemical tanker Sichem Contestor and the crude carrier Energy Sprinter.
The cruise ship Disney Magic was in port Sunday, and the container ship Marwan anchored in the harbour and will dock Monday morning.

5. Energy Sprinter will soon be getting underway from Imperial Oil dock 5, as a storm approaches offshore.

6. The gulls are aware of the tropical storm that will pass to the east of Halifax, and have, like Warwan sought shelter in port.

Pusan - charter in for Hapag-Loyd

The container ship Pusan arrived this morning for Hapag-Lloyd. The ship has been chartered in from one of the oldest and best known of German shipping companies, F. Laiesz of Hamburg.

The company was founded in 1824 and its famed clipper ships, known as the Flying P Line (all ships' names began with the letter P) were known around the world. In fact it was Laiesz's Pamir which was the last commercial clipper to round Cape Horn in sail in 1949. (It was lost in 1957 with 86 lives).

Laiesz specialised in refrigerated ships for many years, but now has a fleet of predominantly container ships, but also has bulkers, autocarriers, tankers and research ships. See their fine web site at: http://www.laeisz.de/en/home.html

The company now generally charters its ships out to other lines, and therefore does not have the high profile it once had. Pusan is typical of these. Built in 1997 by Hyundai Ulsan, it is rated for 4,688 TEU and is 53,324 gross tons. It was built as Pusan Senator (on charter to the now defunct Senator Line of Italy) then ran from 2007 to 2011 as MSC Kenya for the Mediterranean Shipping Company. It became Pusan in 2011.

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