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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Ex HMCS Cormorant has severe list
Thanks to the bridge water police for tweeting the above photo. The ex HMCS Cormerant, has developed a severe list. The ship was retired and sold, and has been tied up at the dock in bridge water for at least the past 10 years.
It’s possible this is the result of snow load, or water has accumulated in a space. The list was first noticed a week ago, though it has since gotten worse.
Last year an ex fishing trawler also tied up at the same dock sunk and needed to be refloated. Photo Below is from last summer.
Zim Monaco
Zim Monaco, arriving this afternoon from Valencia in the snow. When done moving cargo, she will sail for New York.
Seavictory moves to Imperial Oil
the Tanker Seavictory spent the day at anchor in the Basin, before moving to Imperial Oil tonight. Registered in Malta, she arrived from Port Arthur on the 14th.
She was built by Hyundi Mipo in 2007
Hibernia Atlantic Cable Installation set to Begin
The Cable Ship Decisive is due to arrive at anchor today, Signalling the beginning of construction of the Hibernia Express Cable. Decisive has a costing trade license to do prework, including route clearance, before resolute comes to Lay the cable.
The General Cargo vessel Ocean Crescent Loaded cable handling equipment in February, and will presumably bring the cable back to Halifax, where it will be loaded aboard the Resolute for laying.
Hibernia Atlantic has a landing station in Herring Cove.
Photos to Follow.
Pitstops for Icebreakers
The past week has seen stops by several icebreakers Assigned to Gulf of St Lawrence and Newfoundland waters, based out of St. John’s. Stops were for supplies and to take on additional Fuel.
Last year brought a Simalr parade of icebreakers in March.
First Up was the Henry Larsen, Classed as a Medium Gulf Icebreaker, she is also the newest Icebreaker in the fleet., and third largest. She tied up at BIO, then moved to imperial Oil before Sailing.
Second Was the Louis St Laurent. She Tied up at BIO, then took bunkers from the Algoma Dartmouth.
Finally the Weekend brought a stop from the Ann Harvey, who tied up at BIO.
File Photos due to weather.
Person falls into ship Hold
Reports on twitter are that a male fell into the hold of a ship. he reportedly missed the transition between ladders, and fell from the platform approximately 1 story to the bottom of the hold.
it is unclear which vessel was affected, It was considered a confined space rescue, which suggests it is the Sara Desgagnes which is tied up at pier 25, typically an out of the way place for Maintenance work to be performed. She arrived from Saint John, and Offloaded at Imperial Oil, before moving to Pier 25.
the injured person is reported to be conscious , breathing, complaining of back pain but not in any danger.
Will be updated as more details are known.
BBC Vermont with more Cranes
BBC Vermont arrived late Monday with additional Kone overhead cranes for the shipyard, tieing up at pier 9
East Coast to Anchor
The Irving tanker East Coast anchored over the noon hour. The former Nor’easter, she was required to be renamed when moved to the Canadian Registry Late last year. Prior to that she was a frequent applicant for Coasting trade licenses.
She arrived from Saint John, and appears loaded, so will likely off load to Irving’s tank farm via Imperial Oil Dock.
Your BMW might be awhile – Autoport Iced up
Ice has a history of affecting shipping, though this time its terrestrial based ice. The recent snow/rain/freeze weather events that have turned city streets to ice have also frozen cars into autoport. the ice cant be chipped away for fear of damaging the vehicles, so thousands of cars will remain until the ice melts.
this is causing Autoport to use temporary storage in Shearwater, and increasing the time it takes to turnaround ships, in one case, a car carrier bypassed Halifax and moved on to New York ather waiting at anchor 24hours for the previous vessel to move.
Autoport exports vehicles to Newfoundland, and is also the import location for almost all vehicles coming from Europe to Canada.
(Above File Photo)
