ONE Minato - back again, ditto for H Mercury and NYK Rumina

 ONE Minato

 The ONE Minato was back in Halifax again today, December 18, after a month. The ship first called here on November 18 on THE Alliance's EC5 service. As reported here, the ship is the tenth and last of the Milau class built for K-Line and operating for the Japanese joint venture Ocean Network Express. 

When the ship was last here it was westbound from Asia. It sailed frrom Cai Mep, Vietnam October 1 and called at Singapore October 4 to 6 and Colombo October 14 to 15. It sailed directly for Halifax, via the Cape of Good Hope, arriving November 18 and sailing November 19. After calls in New York November 21 to 23, Norfolk November 27 to 30, it then visited Savannah December 2 to 3 and Charleston December 7  to 8. It arrived off Halifax about December 12 and was standing by offshore until yesterday, when it tied up at Pier 41.

It sailed today in bright sunshine. Unlike its last call on a dull day, its magenta hull colour stood out in bright contrast to the black rocks of Point Pleasant Park.

The 152,180 gt, 146,696 dwt ship has a capacity of 13,900 TEU. It was built by Imabari Zosen in Mihara, Japan and delivered in July 2018. Oddly on leaving port today it gave New York as its destination. This backtracking seems odd, but may be the result of schedule slippage, and as the ship is heading eastbound again it appears lightly loaded, so has capacity for more cargo. It may be picking up cargo for another ship that may have been delayed a week or two.

The Atlantic Maple and Atlantic Ash provide the required double tethered escort as the ship is outbound in ideal conditions.

H Mercury

ZIM 's ZCX service has been seeing some different ships recently, as the former feeder route has been extended to inclued the west coast of South America service. Larger ships have been introduced, but as with many ships, the arrivals and departures have been at night with little chance to see or photograph them. One of those different ships has been the H Mercury which first called here October 9 and was back November 13. The ship arrived again yesterday at PSA Fairview Cove and sailed this morning.

 As with previous calls the ship was well loaded with reefers. Built in 2022 by Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding in Jingjiang, China. At 28,848 gt, 24,468 dwt, it has a capacity of 1800 TEU and has 250 reefer plugs. Owners are listed as Yangze Mercury Shipping Pte incorporated in Singapore. (No idea what the H stands for).

NYK Rumina

Another regular caller and member of the Daedalus class, NYK Rumina took the vacated space at PSA Fairview Cove almost as soon as possible, with H Mercury taking a wide turn out into Bedford Basin to make room for the inbound NYK Rumina.

 The tug Atlantic Ash, having undocked the H Mercury, scoots past the inbound off Pier 9C on its way to its next assignment. It is rare to see such close quarters work in the Narrows.

 

The H Mercury turned way to the north in Bedford Basin making lots of room.

 Built in 2010 by Hyundai, Samho, NYK Rumina is a 55,534 gt, 66,171 dwt ship with capacity of around 4888 TEU (or 4922 by some accounts) including 330 reefer plugs.

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