Fairview Cove traffic

 The PSA Fairview Cove container terminal was a busy spot this morning (August 26) with a departure followed immediatley by an arrival.

NYK Constellation arrived late yesterday afternoon for an evening start to work. It still had one crane working at pilot order time of 1030 hrs today, but was ready to go soon after. It was off the berth and underway off Africville park for a photo at 1115.

A member of the NYK Daedalus class, the ship was built by Hyundai Heavy Industry Co Ltd in Ulsan in 2007. At 55,534 gt, 65,919 dwt, it has a capacity of 4922 TEU including 330 reefers. Most of the eight ships of the class have called at Fairview for THE Alliance's AL5 service. Since PSA acquired management contracts for both terminals, some of the ships have been handled by the South End Container Terminal (SECT), PSA Atlantic Gateway. 

That was not the case this time since the SECT had the Ultra size ONE Apus and the Vistula Maersk to handle.

While the NYK Constellation was clearing Fairview Cove the ZIM China was making its way inbound with the tethered escrort tug Atlantic Oak and was in the Narrows approaching the A. Murray MacKay bridge at 1112 hrs. The two ships passed just inside Bedford Basin in a neat bit of passage planning. [No photo due to impending rain and very wet grass.]

ZIM China made it first call in Halifax December 27, 2022 on ZIM's ZCA service. Built in 2008 by Samsung Shipbuilding + Heavy Industry in Geoje, South Korea, it is a 40,487 gt, 51,733 dwt ship with a capacity of 4275 TEU. It carried the name Hanjin Kenya from 2008 to 2017 then after a brief spell as Seaspan Kenya it became ALS Fauna later in 2017. It became ZIM China as of April 1, 2022.

ZIM has just recently shifted its operations to Fairview Cove with its feeder Contship Leo's first call on August 4 and the first Atlantic service ZCA ship, ZIM Vancouver on August 5. The benefit of the rationalization of services was evident today as the terminals were operating continuously and the ships were minimally delayed if at all.

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