The tanker Ardmore Exporter anchored in Halifax around midnight November 23-24. It appears to be in ballast, and is not scheduled to load or to take bunkers.
The ship is arriving from Montreal where it appears to have unloaded a cargo from Corpus Christi, TX. Once the day dawned I noticed that the diving tender Allen Clipper was secured alongside. This usually means that some under water work such as hull or intake/discharge cleaning (invasive species removal), prop trim or entanglement clearing.
Ardmore Shipping Corp is listed on the NYSE and owns and operates about 25 tankers product / chemical tankers and runs a pair of charters. Its ships are managed out of Singapore with corporate operations in Ireland and Delaware. The company maintains one of the most thorough web sites I can recall. It records every imaginable detail about its ships including the (to me) startling fact that this ship's crew consists of only 11 persons, incidentally of Indian nationality.
The ship is due to sail later tonight with some sources indicating that it is headed for Houston, thus missing impending winter conditions working eastward across southern Canada. So far in Halifax at least, the rain has not quite turned to snow but is reducing visibility.
The Ardmore Exporter 29,950 gt, 49,526 dwt was built in 2014 by STX Offshore and Shipbuilding in Jinhae and was named Front Esk. It was renamed in 2016 by Ardmore.
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