Much ado #2 - the wind

 The second post outlining the busy action in Halifax harbour today, August 2, involves the ships working on the Vineyard Wind project. Halifax is the staging port for the project off the Massachusetts coast. The wind towers arrive in sections on heavy cargo ships and are then transferred to the installation ship. Today saw the departure of the GPO Sapphire (very early in the morning) after transferring its cargo of six towers to the Orion using the Orion's 5,000 tonne crane. [see previous posts]. The GPO Sapphire gave Rostock, Germany for destination.

Late in the morning the Orion sailed from the IEL dock in Woodside for the offshore construction site where it will assemble and place the towers.

That leaves the second heavy cargo ship GPO Grace at anchor with the components for six more towers. Presumably it will have to wait for the return of the Orion to off load. That may be up to a month depending on weather and mechanical issues at the Vineyard site. The GPO Grace arrived July 5 from Aviles, Spain.

 Once the Orion was clear, the heavy lift ship Pijlgracht moved from anchorage in Bedford Basin to the IEL dock. The Pijlgracht initially arrived July 25 [see updated post] at Pier 9C and unloaded a sonar array for the RCN. It then went to anchor on July 26.

I will keep an eye on the IEL dock to see what the ship will be unloading there. As previously reported it has two 700 tonne capacity cranes that can work in tandem for a 1400 tonne lift.

to be continued...