the Tanker Seavictory spent the day at anchor in the Basin, before moving to Imperial Oil tonight. Registered in Malta, she arrived from Port Arthur on the 14th. She was built by Hyundi Mipo in 2007
Month: March 2015
The Cable Ship Decisive is due to arrive at anchor today, Signalling the beginning of construction of the Hibernia Express Cable. Decisive has a costing trade license to do prework, including route clearance, before resolute comes to Lay the cable. The General Cargo vessel Ocean Crescent Loaded cable handling equipment
The past week has seen stops by several icebreakers Assigned to Gulf of St Lawrence and Newfoundland waters, based out of St. John’s. Stops were for supplies and to take on additional Fuel. Last year brought a Simalr parade of icebreakers in March. First Up was the Henry Larsen, Classed
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
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.