ONE Blue Jay

 The third of the Ocean Network Express "Bird" class ships arrived today, May 29, on THE Alliance's EC5 service. ONE Blue Jay is sailing directly from Colombo via Suez.

It is an NYK Line ship, built as NYK Blue Jay and renamed in 2019. Like its sister ships ONE Stork (in Halifax April 26) and ONE Hawk (May 10) it docked at Pier 41, PSA Halifax Atlantic Hub. All three ships were built by Japan Marine United at the Kure shipyard, and have a capacity of 14,026 TEU. Tonnages may vary slightly between ships of this class, but are usually 145,251 gt, 139,335 dwt,

ONE Blue Jay is the first ship in the series of fifteen ships and it was built in 2016 (the last was built in 2019).

As expected the ship employed three tugs: Atlantic Bear with a line astern, Atlantic Oak forward and Atlantic Fir aft, and used the western, deep water, channel on its way in.

In the coming weeks four more of the ships of this class are expected and some may be calling on the eastbound return leg, such as ONE Hawk due again tomorrow.

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