Reports on twitter are that a male fell into the hold of a ship. he reportedly missed the transition between ladders, and fell from the platform approximately 1 story to the bottom of the hold. it is unclear which vessel was affected, It was considered a confined space rescue, which
Year: 2015
BBC Vermont arrived late Monday with additional Kone overhead cranes for the shipyard, tieing up at pier 9
The Irving tanker East Coast anchored over the noon hour. The former Nor’easter, she was required to be renamed when moved to the Canadian Registry Late last year. Prior to that she was a frequent applicant for Coasting trade licenses. She arrived from Saint John, and appears loaded, so will
Ice has a history of affecting shipping, though this time its terrestrial based ice. The recent snow/rain/freeze weather events that have turned city streets to ice have also frozen cars into autoport. the ice cant be chipped away for fear of damaging the vehicles, so thousands of cars will remain
The product tanker Kourion took to anchor on arrival to await her birth at Imperial Oil. With the Departure of Seamuse, she took tugs and moved to Imperial oil
The General Cargo Ship Macco Straight, running for Melfi, arrived a day early today from Lisbon Portugal. She is scheduled to tie up at pier 41/42 tomorrow. Those piers are currently occupied by ZIM Constanza and Ernest Hemingway, so she will spend the day at anchor in the Inner harbour.
The General cargo Ship BBC Ohio arrived yesterday to load a boiler that arrived from the manufacturer on a railcar. It is unclear if she has additional cargo to load, though her hatches are open.
The Tanker Nounou spent the weekend tied up at Tufts Cove topping up the tanks at NSP’s Power plant. She moved to Anchor this morning for bunkers.
Lastweek brought a stopover of the laden capesize bulker Frontier Discovery for bunkers. As a cape size, she is too large to fit through either the Panama or Suez Canals, and is typically restricted to working one ocean, as leaving requires sailing around the southern tip of Africa or South
My Other Blog, Built Halifax did a post on the The MacDonald Bridge. Since it Crosses the Harbour, there may be some interest here. As a Special Treat, here are some of the unused images from that post.