The Products Tanker Sloman Hera at anchor in the basin. She arrived yesterday evening. She is likly waiting her turn to tie up at Imperial Oil to load.
Sloman Hera
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Pegasus
the Greek crude oil tanker Pegasus spent the morning at anchorage 1 for bunkers. She departed for Las Palmas around 1300.
Twilight Fading
Oakland Express Outbound west channel (Above) Algoscotia Inbound East Channel (Bellow)
Princimar Joy Back to IOL
As reported at Shipfax, Princimar Joy departed IOL Mid Discharge due to High Winds. Now that the forcast has improved, she moved back to the dock to finish discharging crude oil.
Mattea’s Turn
With Kometik Sailing around 10am for Hiberina, It is now Mattea’s turn for bunkers. They arrived at Anchorage 1 overnight.
Bunkering Kometik
Above – A daylight Shot. Bellow – A Shot From the Bridge, as the Bunker Barge comes along side with tug assistance
Bunkering American Style
This afternoon we will see Bunkering – US Style.
In Halifax (And much of the rest of the world im told) Bunkering is done from a smallish dedicated Tanker – such as our own Algoma Dartmouth, and the NT Dartmouth before that.
The shuttle tankers Kometik and Mattea will be bunkered via the Barge Columbia with the Tug Siberian Sea. It is common in the US to use a Tug and Barge to move oil, as this combination requires less crew then a full tanker does. This sort of combination makes periodic apperances at the Imperial Oil Docks.
There is no word on why Algoma Dartmouth is not being used, However it could be the Algoma Dartmouth, or the Low Sulfer Fuel required is unavailable. UPDATE: It appears the Low Sulfer Fuel is not currently available in Halifax. In the Fall refinery shift their product lines, and Imperial Oil may currently be shutdown for that transition. Algoma Dartmouth was imported to Canada, but an agreement was made that it could not trade outside the Harbour, or the Substantial Import Duty would need to be paid on her. Thus she is unavailable to make the trip to St John NB.
The Tug Siberian Sea and Barge Columbia are owned by K-SEA OPERATING LLC, and are based out of New York NY. The tug was built in 1980 and is Powered by two EMD 12-645 E-2 diesel engines, she is a twin screw tug rated at 3,300 horsepower. The Barge Columbia has a capcity of 58000 Barrels.
Eta is 1400. Photos to follow.
The tug and barge arrived after 6pm tonight, and set right to work. The Barge is hard to see as it it very low in the water. Better Daylight Photo’s Tomorrow.
More Kometik
Kometik, Sporting A fresh paint job. You can see her back in June in a previous post.
View from the Harbour
Thanks to Scott, A crewmember on the Kometik, for tweeting me some pictures while they are at anchor.
DS Crown to the Rescue
A post panamax containership is on fire in the middle of the North Atlantic after an explosion in a containerstack. The crew of the 6,732-teu MSC Flaminia (built 2001) have abandoned ship with four of the 25 seafarers reported to have suffered injuries and one missing. A rescue is currently underway with the oil tanker DS Crown the nearest vessel able to provide assistance to the crew who took to a lifeboat and liferaft. The incident happened about 1,000 miles from the Canadian and UK coasts so beyond the range of rescue helicopters.
DS Crown is the former Front Crown which was sold to new owners and was renamed in Anchorage 1, before she sailed in last week
UPDATE:
Tradewinds reports that 2 crew have died, and 2 tugs with firefighting equipment are on route. A Lloyds Open Form salvage agreement has been signed with SMIT.
UPDATE 2:
See http://www.reederei-nsb.com/site_en/index.php?node_id=2338 for official releases from the ships owner. Firefighting equipent has arrived, and the plan is to extinguish the flames and tow the vessel to europe. Reederei NSB also released the following Photos:
UPDATE 3 (July 19) There has apperntly been a second explosion, leading to a halt of fire fighting Efforts. An addtional Tug is also enroute
