A newcomer, among others

 A new to Halifax ship showed up in Halifax today, November 17, along with a pair of previous callers.

ONE Monaco arrived at PSA Atlantic Gateway on THE Alliance's EC5 Asia / North America service, this time east bound from New York. It was here October 14 westbound from Colombo, Sri Lanka, via the Cape of Good Hope, and has since called at the US east coast ports of New York, Norfolk, Savannah, Jaksonvillle, Charleston and New York again.

The seventh of ten ships in its class, it was built in 2018 by Imabari Zosen, Mihara as Monaco Bridge for K-Line. The 150,706 gt, 147,021 dwt ship has a capacity of 13,900 TEU. K-Line joined with the MOL and NYK to form Ocean Network Express (ONE) in 2017 and some of  the ships have been rebranded and repainted to ONE livery. The name change in this case came in 2023. Sister ship ONE Minato is due tomorrow on the westbound leg of the EC5.

The new to Halifax ship is the Spyros V on ZIM's ZCA route from the Mediterranean. Its last port was Messina, Italy and it is bound for New York.

Built in 2011 by Jiangsu New Yangzijiang in Jingjiang, it is a 40,542 gt, 49,891 dwt ship with a capacity of 4250 TEU including 698 reefer slots. It operated as the Bella Schulte for the Thomas Schulte Reederei until 2015 when it was acquired by affiliates of the Greek operator Technomar Shipping Inc, and renamed. The "V" presumably is the Roman numeral, representing the capacity class, similar to MSC's new naming policy.

A repeat visitor, but not a regular one, is the auto carrier Morning Cindy at Autoport on the Wallenius Wilhelmsen North Atlantic route from Bremerhaven and Zeebrugge for New York.

Morning Cindy was built in 2012 by Imabari Zosen in Marugame. The 59,580 gt, 18,735 dwt ship has a capacity of 6,142 Car Equivalent Units. Despite operating for EUKOR (a partnership of Wilhelmsen, Wallenius, American RoRo and United European Car Carriers), ostensibly to carry Korean made auotmobiles, the ship is owned and managed by Japanese interests through a Panama corporation: Excel Marine Co Ltd of Fukuoka.

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