ATLANTIC HAWK serviceing GSF GRAND BANKS CCGS ALFERD NEEDLER HELLESPONT CHALLENGER sails for Les Escoumins
Author: PeterZ
The Cruise Ship schedule for 2012 has been released, and Begins in April, with visits by 2 titanic 100th Aniversary cruises. Azamara Journey will visit Halifax on April 12 and On April 16/17, Balmoral will make an overnight stay. The regulars Carnival Glory and Maasdam are back, and are joined
Locomotives for the export market have had a long history of shipping through Halifax, primarally on Jumbo Shipping vessels. The Locomotives Orignated at EMD’s London Ontario Facility. EMD was originally the Electro Motive Division of General Motors, but was spun off and sold to the Progress Rail Subsiduary of Caterpiller.
The Maersk Dispatcher arrived in Halifax earlier this week, and has been working with the GSF Grand Banks Today. It Appears the GSF grand banks’ maintinace period is neering completion as she has the lifeboats deployed, and is working with the supplier. Maersk Dispatcher’s sister ship, Maersk Detector collided with
Canada Steamship Lines vessel Spruceglen on trials in the basin after a Maintenance period which included being re-flagged to Canada and being re-painted in csl’s domestic scheme, which is why she looks so clean
USCG Dependable departed after a short visit today, just after 1400. Here she is passing Chubucto Head having just dropped off the Pilot.
USCG Dependable Arrived this morning for a visit, and tied up at NB4, leaving the dock in the way. She is likely here to help commemorate the 50th Annivarsary of the Canadian Coast Guard which was formed on January 26th 1962. The Canadian Coast Guard officially came into existence, when
CBC news is reporting that a naval intelligence officer was arrested for disclosing information to foreign entities. Lt.Jeffrey Paul Delisle is reportededly tasked with monitoring shipping movements in the North Atlantic, and is based HMCS Trinity, which is housed within the Halifax Dockyard. The navy monitors shipping movements in and
Onego Chinook, currently anchored in the basin, looks an awful lot like MCP Troddos currently at anchor in the inner harbour. this is because they are twins. Both vessels wre built in 2007 by Huanghai Shipbuilding in Rongcheng, China and are managed by Intership Navigation of Cyprus. Onego Chinook was