CMA CGM Andromeda

 Another first caller for the Port of Halifax arrived this morning, February 19. CMA CGM Andromeda is a 131,332 gt, 131,236 dwt ship with a capacity of 11,200 TEU (some sources say 11,300) and was built in 2009 by Hyundai Ulsan. Unusual for a ship of its size, it does not have the split superstructure with bridge and some accommodation isolated forward. Instead it has the wheelhouse aft in the conventional arrangement found on smaller ships.

The ship appears to be on the Ocean Alliance Columbus JAX service (CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen, OOCL) but has varied from the usual port calls. Ships on this Asia / North America east coast service usually sail directly from Colombo, Sri Lanka to Halifax. However this ship's last Asian port of call was Port Klang, Malaysia. It skipped Colombo, but stopped last at Tanger Med, Morocco. 

The ship is expected to call next at New York, Norfolk, Charleston and Savannah before returning to Asia via Suez. 

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