Last here in 2011, CSL Spirit has been operating as a shuttle bulker to load iron ore onto larger bulkers for export. As large bulkers are 2 large to tie up at the pier, CSL Spirit is loaded, then offloads into the larger vessel anchored off shore. Several trips are required to fill one vessel.

I expect once she is done bunkering, she will sail back to Sept-Ills. CSL Spirit also severed national gypsum on numerous occasions.

file photo above.
Below, From Straight Area Shipping News, A Coal transfer operation similar to what happens in Sept-Iles.

Fednav’s ice-breaking bulk carrier Nunavik is due at Sheet Harbour. She will pick up a pilot off Halifax, and proceed up the coast. she will load mining equipment in Sheet harbour, before sailing North.

As a newbuild, she stopped in Halifax on her delivery voyage in  in march 2014, and made the first commercial unassisted voyage through the northwest passage to china.

File Photo.

 

Regular halifax caller, the bulk carrier Barkald is the first ship of 2015. She tied up at National Gypsum just after 5pm on the first to avoid the holiday.

the Bulker Prabhu Daya made a brief stop for bunkers before leaving for Savannah just before 1300. She appears to have come out of the St Lawrence river, and may be loaded with iron from Sept Iles.

In 2012, the vessel was detained by indian Authorities after she, carrying iron ore, had sailed from Goa for discharge at a Chinese port. During the journey, the vessel rammed the fishing boat ‘DON-1’ which resulted in the death of five fishermen and left two injured. The fishing boat capsized and sank.

the bulker Vitagrace moved from the Basin anchorage this afternoon to tie up at pier 28. She will presumably be loading a bulk cargo of some sort from the grain elevator.

We previously posted about her on the 16th, when she had been at anchor for a few days allready

The Bulker CMB Mae made a brief stop for bunkers today. Built in 2010, she is equipped with 4 cranes and clam shell buckets, as well as deck stanchions for loads such as logs. She is bound  for Gibraltar, having sailed from Port Cartier

She spent the Afternoon off Dartmouth Cove, and sailed when bunkers were complete.

The Maltese registered Bulker Vitagrace Arrived on the 14th and anchored in the basin. Built in Japan  in 2001, she is owned and manged by the Greek firm Vita Management. She Appears to have arrived from Australia, and may be headed to load Iron Ore at Sept Iles.

Sorry for the bad photo – Its from my phone.

it is perhaps ironic, that a few weeks after we find one of Sir John Franklin’s ships, lost while searching for the northwest passage, that the ice class bulk carrier Nunavik is sailing the route to reach China. They are offering daily progress updates on their website at http://www.fednav.com/en/voyage-nunavik

A new build for Fednav, She was built to serve northern nickle mines with out the need for icebreaker assistance. She put into Halifax on her delivery voyage. Fednav also runs the umiak 1, which was due to operate out of Halifax once the new concentrator in Newfoundland is built.