ONE at the Southend

 As predicted, PSA, the operators of both container terminals, is shifting ships between the two terminals. When the terminals were run by competing operators, shipping lines contracted with only one terminal and except in rare cases, ships of those lines always docked at the contracted terminal.

THE Alliance, the latest version of a multi-line group consisting of Hapag-Lloyd, Yang Ming, HMM and Ocean Network Express (ONE), was formed in 2017, and contracted with Cerescorp, then operators of Fairveiw Cove. When PSA took over management of Fairview Cove's contracts, it had the option to send ships to the port's southend terminal, which they also operate as PSA Atlantic Gateway, if and when needed. Lately PSA has been doing so with the larger ships on THE Alliance's EC5 service. 

It is now believed THE Alliance will be sending even larger ships through Halifax, and they will certainly be serviced at the southend facility as they will be too big to clear the two harbour bridges ern route to Fairview Cove.

Today's arrival, ONE Helsinki has called at Fairview Cove since its first visit July 30, 2021 and up until its most recent call on December 30, 2022. At that time I remarked that the ship was about as large a conventional container ship as Fairview Cove could handle.

But today PSA Fairview Cove was hosting the Atlantic Sun and Nolhan Ava and did not have room for another ship. Whatever the reason, and so as not to create a delay, ONE Helsinki was sent to the available berth at Pier 42.

The ship was built in 2012 by IHI, Kure, and is a 96,801 gt, 96,980 dwt vessel with a capacity of 8930 TEU. At first it was named Helsinki Bridge for K-Line but when the Japanese container lines consolidated, forming Ocean Network Express it was renamed ONE Helsinki in 2020 and acquired ONE's magenta hull colour.

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