Another new to Halifax container ship showed up today on the CMA CGM / Maersk St-Laurent 1 / CAE (Canada Atlantic Express) service. CMA CGM Paranagua is very similar in appearance to another ship on the service, the 2007 built EM Kea, but is two years older, dating from 2005. The ships were built, in series of a dozen or more sister ships, by Stocznia Szczecinska Nowa in Poland over period of several years. The are readily identifiable by the sloped fairing on the after side of the superstructure.
It is a 35,881 gt, 41,801 dwt ship with a capacity of 3091 TEU. Unlike its younger sister however, it is equipped with three cargo cranes.
Originally named Cosima by the Peter Doehle organization, it was renamed Norasia Atlas in 2005, and Letavia briefly during 2006 becoming Emirates Freedom to 2009 when it was again named Letavia until 2021. CMA CGM then acquired the ship and it took its present name, and placed it iunder the mamagement of NSB Niederelbe.
Paranguá is a major port in the south of Brazil, and its name comes from the indigenous Tupi language, and means "great round sea".
The joint CMA CGM and Maersk service has been using the EM Kea since 2015 and since earlier this year three "V" class Maersk ships, Volga Maersk, Vistula Maersk and Viyenga Maersk which were displaced from a Baltic / Russia service. The latter of these now appears to have returned to the Baltic and its place taken by the CMA CGM Paranagua.
The route taken by these ships is Bremerhaven / Rotterdam / Antwerp / Montreal / Halifax (optional) / Bremerhaven.
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