ONE Stork

 Another Ultra size container ship arrived in Halifax this afternoon, April 26. This time it was not one of the Sea Alliance CMA CGM ships however. The ONE Stork is sailing on the EC5 service of THE Alliance. It is arriving from the major Asian ports, Laem Chebang, Cai Mep, Singapore and Colombo via Suez.

The ship is too large to go under the harbour bridges and dock at PSA Fairview Cove, where EC5 ships would normally tie up. Instead it berthed at PSA Atlantic Gateway, the South End Terminal. It also used the western deep water channel inbound. In addition to the tethered escort Atlantic Oak on the stern, it had Atlantic Fir and Atlantic Cedar to assist in making the turns and berthing.

[Atlantic Cedar arrived from Saint John yesterday, to fill in for the Atlantic Beaver, which along with the Atlantic Bear went to Saint John to berth the LNG tanker Cadiz Knutsen at Canaport.]

The ONE Stork was built in 2018 by the Japan Marine United Shipyard in Kure. It is a 145,251 gt, 139,335 dwt vessel with a capacity of 14,026 TEU. Originally ordered by NYK Line, it was to have been named "NYK Stork", but the prinicipal Japanese container lines, K-Line, MOL and NYK formed the Ocean Network Express [ONE] joint venture in late 2017 and the ship was chartered to the new company. 

So far ONE has not actually owned any ships, but has chartered in vessels from the partner companies and from leassor's like Seaspan (which it co-owns).  However the company has about twenty new ships on order, for delivery in the next few years, and will stop chartering from the partner companies. ONE is the seventh largest container line with about 6% of the world trade. It has a capacity of more than 1.5 million TEU on 205+ ships. About 35 of those ships are large (greater than 14,000 TEU).

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