The Saudi National Shipping lines vessel Saudi Tabuk. She is due for the scrappers and will be replaced by Bahri Tabuk. NSCSA is in the process of building new vessels, and is scrapping the current class as they come online. Bahri Abha, which replaced Saudi Abha was here last month.
Category: container ship
The Container Vessel Coast called over the wekend for Melfi. She spent Saturday at anchor in the basin, presumably waiting out weather. She moved to Pier 41 Sunday morning, and is still there, though she has appears to have completed cargo Operations
Another Hapag Lloyd vessel Scheduled for the upcoming G6 Rotation, Dalian Express will be making her second trip to Halifax. She was last here on May 27th, and has since turned and is making the trip back in reverse. Like G6 service Mate Yantain Express, who stopped in halifax earlier
On Sunday, CSAV RUNGUE is scheduled to stop at fairview cove for Atlantic Container Lines. She is likely the charter vessel to replace Atlantic Cartier, which was damaged by fire. She is a conventional container vessel, without a RO-RO capability. it is likely then that delays will be added to
Hapag Lloyd today announced taking the delivery of the 13196 TEU Essen Express. She is the 6th of 10 vessels, and is 366m in lenth, and built by Hyundai Heavy Industries at Ulsan, South Korea. Regulars may recall that Essen Express makes regular calls in Halifax on the PAX Service.
Today marks the beginning of the new G6 service to halifax, with the first trip leaving Thailand today. today also brought the arrival of the Yantain Express, one of Hapag Lloyd’s vessels assigned to the new service. Hapag Lloyd is likely in the process of shuffling its fleet as OOCL
Today brings the first Visit for the BAHRI ABHA. The BAHRI ABHA is the replacement for the NSCAA’s Saudi Abha, which was sent for scrap earlier this year. A CON-RO ship, she is simalar to ACL’s vessels, though she carries cranes to do her own cargo handleing at unimproved ports.
Halifax regular Atlantic Cartier suffered a fire in her roro deck last night in Hamburg Germany. Reports are 80 cars were damaged. No word on damage to the ship, though its probably significant. Acl is building replacements for these vessels, so if damage is significant, Atlantic Cartier may go straight
Thanks to a source at halterm, ZIM Colombo arrived today with some damaged containers due to large waves. Such damage does occur fairly regularly and is ka good reminder of the power of the seas.