Contship Art - for ZIM and Tarifa for WWO

ZIM

ZIM's CFX service - a weekly Caribbean feeder line from Halifax to Kingston, Jamaica via New York, has been opearting since April 2018 using short term charters.

Today (July 28) saw the arrival of Contship Art for the first time, with this name.

 The ship was built by Jangsu Yangzijiang Shipyard in Jiangyin in 2014 as Taipei Trader. It was renamed Cap Avatele on delivery and renamed Taipei Trader in 2016. It is a 9932 gt, 13,063 dwt vessel with a capacity of 1102 TEU including 220 reefers and carries two 45 tonne SWL cranes. As Taiepi Trader it called in Halifax for the CFX service in 2020 -2021. It was renamed Contship Art in 2022.

It replaces Warnow Master which took up the service in May of this year. Contship Art will join  Contship Leo which has been on the service since October 2011.

WWO

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean operates a regular North Europe / North America service delivering automobiles and other RoRo cargo. The automobiles are handled at Autoport, and most of the RoRo at Richmond Terminals, Pier 9C. As usual today (July 27) the RoRo brought in by the Tarifa consisted of mostly construction, agriculture and forestry machinery with some miscellaneous objects such as small boats and crates.

 

Built in 2007 by Stocznia Grynia in Poland, the ship was launched as Tarifa but renamed Morning Charisma on delivery for EUKOR, but was soon renamed Tarifa. The 57,692 gt, 21,120 dwt ship has a capacity of 6400 RT43 cars.

An amazing quantity of RoRo cargo form previous ships has been cleared from the Pier 9C area in the past few days, but the space was soon filled up again today. (The photo above was taken early in the morning.)

The heavy lift ship Pijlgracht (see previous post - updated)  moved out to anchor in Bedford Basin last evening to make way for the Tarifa and is expected to move back alongside again.

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Warnow Master - new for ZIM

 ZIM Integrated Services Ltd operates two container services through Halifax: ZCA - ZIM Container Atlantic, and CFZ - Canada Feeder Express. The latter runs to the Kingston, Jamaica hub via New York and coordinates with other regional services.

Today, May 25 marks the first arrival in Halifax of the Warnow Master on the CFZ run. The Warnow Master was previously employed on ZIM's Caribbean Gulf Express, running from Mobile and Houston to Kingston.

Built in 2009 by Zhejiang Ouhua Shipbuilding Co Ltd in Zhoushan it has a capacity of 1496 TEU, including 276 reefers. The 17,068 gt, 21,146 dwt ship will call in Halifax every second Thursday.

Warnow Master replaces the AS Felicia which has been on the CFZ since April 3, 2018. A slightly smaller ship of 15,375 gt, 18,291 dwt, it has a capacity of 1296 TEU including 390 reefers, it also carries two cranes. Coincidentally it was built at the same shipyard, but in 2006. Launched as Medocean it was delivered as EWL Caribbean and renamed APL Managua in 2007, Medocean in 2014 and  AS Felicia in 2015.

AS Felicia's last call in Halifax was on May 7. 

Due to various circumstances no decent photo seems likely on Warnow Master's first visit - maybe next time...

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