Miscellaneous Dutch-built arrivals

 This a grab bag about today's harbour arrivals (June 30).

A sleek yacht named New Secret arrived at the C.O.V.E dock. The 74m / 243' long vessel, built in 2019 by Amels, Vlissingen has the customary (for superyachts) steel hull and aluminum superstructure and measures 1790 gt. 

The ship has just completed a month long trip to the Great Lakes. It was reported upbound in the St.Lawrence Seaway May 25, bound for Chicago, and downbound again June 25. According to a Wikipedia entry the New Secret is owned by the Lopes family of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The name "Secret" is popular among wealthy yacht owners. A Walmart heiress owns one Secret that is listed for sale for Euros 78,500,000 (about US$ 82,000,000). It measures 82.5m (270.6 ft) long and 2240 gt.

For most of this month there has been a yacht in port called Majestic, but it was previously called Secret. Whether there is any connection to either of the others is unknown to me.

The Majestic is 61.2m (200 ft) long, 1052 gt and built in 2008 by Feadship, Netherlands. It was tied up at the Foundation pier on June 3, and is still there today. It is due to sail tomorrow morning (July 1).

Anchoring in the lower harbour today was the vessel Endeavour. .

The ship was built in 1999 by Van der Giessen-de-Noord, Krimpen a/d Ijssel. Originally named Bold Endeavour it was converted in 2004 from a cable ship to a diving support vessel. In 2007 it was renamed Deep Endeavour, then in 2020 simply Endeavour.

Now the ship is operated by the Transoceanic Cable Ship Co LLC, so presumably it still does cable work, likely with an ROV. It appears to have cable stowage racks on its upper deck, but they appear to be empty.

The ship was in the Gulf of Mexico in May, then in Freeport, Bahamas and most recently in Baltimore. The latter port is a well known base for cable ships. When it sailed this evening it headed back in a southwesterly direction, giving Portsmouth, NH as its destinaiton.

The submarine cable manufacturer, Simplex Technolgies Inc (a subsidiary of Tyco International Ltd), has its factory in Newington, NH, a suburb of Portsmouth. So the Endeavour is likely to fill up those racks with new marine grade fibreoptic cable.

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Sunday traffic and updates

Not a particularly busy day in the port, with no cruise ships in but there was activity.

Work on cleaning the hull of the tanker Endeavour (see yesterday's post) has progressed down the port side and onto the starboard side. The difference is noticeable.

No ETD has been posted for the ship yet.

KSL Seville did take bunkers today, but remains in number 1 anchorage. It must be in for some sort of repair.

The Yang Ming container ship YM Express arrived this afternoon. Its first visit for THE Alliance's AL1 service was April 30 but I missed it on that day.

 
Built by China Shipbuilding Corp, Kaohsiung in 2015, the 47,952 grt, 57,320 dwt ship has a capacity of 4662 TEU (including 700 reefers).

 
The ship displays a variety of boxes, but CSAV is now a major owner of HAPAG-Lloyd and H-L has purchased UASC (United Arab Shipping Co). Activities of the latter have now been totally merged into H-L.

At Autoport MSC Immacolata made a brief visit, tying up just before noon and sailing at 1530 hrs.

Due the crowd at Halterm yesterday (the 9365 TEU CMA CGM Rhone and the 3108 TEU EM Kea  and all four big cranes hard at work ) there was no room  at pier 41-42. Tropical Shipping's Bomar Rebecca tied up at pier 36.  Oddly the ship used its own cranes to unload some containers and this evening moved to pier 41 to begin loading tomorrow. Tropical's destinations and schedules may well have been disrupted by recent hurricanes, which might account for the early arrival. Tropical ships usually arrive and sail on Mondays.

There are four cranes lining pier 36-37, but only one (the one on the far right) is a working crane. The others are no longer functional. The fact that Bomar Rebecca did not use it may or may not be significant. 

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Anchorages in use

Halifax's anchorages were in good use today for tow ships, neither of which will load or unload cargo here.
First in was the tanker Endeavour, arriving from Montreal in ballast. Flying the Singapore flag, the ship was built in 2004 by STX Shipbuilding in Jinhae, South Korea, a mid-range tanker of 30,032 grt, 46,1201 dwt. It is operated by Transpetrol. Tanker Management of Norway.

The purpose of this visit is for hull cleaning, and the workboat was soon alongside with its scrubber machine. This kind of work used to require drydocking, but with current technology the work can be completed with the ship afloat. Aside from removing harmful marine growth, and possible invasive species, hull cleaning also result in major fuel savings by decreasing hull resistance.

Late this afternoon the fully laden bulk carrier  KSL Seville arrived from Sept-Iles, QC carrying iron ore. Because of its size, it was met at the outer pilot station by two pilots and was soon joined by two tugs. As it crept into port it soon obvious why two tugs were required. Due to its great draft (reported to be 17.2m) the pilots used the deep water (western channel) which requires a sharp dogleg to return to the ranges of the main channel. The stern tethered escort, Atlantic Fir was used for braking, but also swung far out abreast to turn the ship.  Meanwhile Atlantic Oak, stationed forward also assisted in turning by pushing the bow. These large bulkers generally do not have bow thrusters, so the second tug was necessary.

KSL Seville returning toward the main channel from the western channel, the stern escort tug is pulling the stern around from the starboard quarter..

KSL Seville flies the Hong Kong flag for Front Seville Inc, part of the John Frederiksen conglomerate and is managed by his bulk carier copmany Golden Ocean Group Ltd. It was built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao shipyard in 2015 and measures a hearty 93,366 grt, 181,903 dwt.

Back in the main channel, the tugs are keeping the ship in line due limited steerage way art slow speed.

No reason was given for the ship's arrival, and there is no sign that it will be taking bunkers.

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