Feast or Famine at Fairview Cove

Days go by with no ships at Cerescorp's Fairview Cove container terminal, then, as today, three ships show up.
At one point it was the rare sight of two ACL ships in ast the same time. Atlantic Sea was due to arrive last night, but the arrival was put off until this morning. Shortyl after Atlantic Sun arrived. The this afternoon Crete I arrived as  Atlantic Sea sailed. With Crete I being such a large ship, needing the large cranes, Atlantic Sun was relegated to the east berth, where it was able to use its RoRo ramp, but the small crane was still upright this evening, so it was not working containers.

Although the ACL ships have very large gross tonnage of 100,430, it was dwarfed by the Crete I. This is explained by the fact that the ACL has much greater internal enclosed space, which is counted as gross tons (one ton = 100 cubic feet). Its carrying capacity, indicated by deadweight tonnage, is 55,738 tonnes. Its hull dimesnions are 296m x 37.7m. The ship's width was dictated by the width of the lock it must pass through to berth in Liverpool

Crete I at 75,604 grt, has much less internal space, but a deadweight tonnage of 85,622 tonnes. Its dimensions are 304.12m x 40.05m. It was built in 2009 by Hyundai, Ulsan as Ilse Wulff, and carried the name Al Khor from 2009 to 2012 on charter with United Arab Shipping Company (UASC). It was renamed Ilse Wulff in 2012 and Crete I in 2016. With Hapag-Lloyd's takeover of UASC, the ship now works for H-L in THE Alliance. It has a capacity of 6300 TEU, including 460 reefers.

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