Mckiel’s Tug, Beverly M1 arrived today and tied up at ECTug on the Halifax waterfront. She left Quebec Nov 16, spent time in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, before arriving in Sydney NS. She departed Sydney yesterday and arrived in Halifax over the Noon Hour.
Category: tug
The BBC Maple Lea, Loads Cargo directly onto a barge. The barge NT1509 arrived in tow of Northern Transportation’s Tug Keewatin. Note the BBC Maple Lea is also carrying a large deck load of Yachts near the Bow. She also earlier offloaded some fabrications onto trucks.
Tug and barge departed Fairview cove yesterday afternoon bound for Newfoundland with 4 more cable spools
The tug Tim Mckeil spent the weekend with a barge at Fairview Cove. They appear to be handling spools of some sort, which have been at the west end of the dock for several days now. Both were gone by last night, presumably to clear space for todays arrivals of
Due tonight is the tug Ocean Arctique. The tug is tandem towing two barges, abys and timberland to be used by American Bridge co. For the big lift. The tug was finished at the Halifax shipyard, and the barge timberland was owned by the yard until it was sold in
The Svitzer tugs Svitzer Nerthus and Svitzer Njal Sailed this morning bound or Milne Inlet on Bafin Island. They arrived in June, and are to work a contract for the new Iron Ore mine there. interestingly, they didn’t take Canadian names. Nerthus is the Germanic Goddess of Fertility, hailing from
The Tugs Svitzer Njal and Svitzer Nerthus Arrived in Halifax. If they look familiar, they were both built in 2009 at Irvings East Isle shipyard. Svitzer Njal is the former Stevns Icequeen and Svitzer Nerthus is the former Stevns Iceflower. Stevns ordered the tugs, as replacements for tugs of the
Svitzer Cartier, Now Registered in Canada spent some time off pier 27, likely conducting bollard pull tests there. When finished she sailed back to the ECTug Wharf. The shipping cover recently came off her stern winch
The Svitzer Wombi has now been painted out, and Svitzer Cartier has been painted with a register port of Halifax. She does not yet appear in the Canadian Vessel Registry, though this is likely imminent.