2015 was another eventful year at the Port of Halifax <\/p>\n
Australian Spirit was towed to Portugal<\/a> for repairs. Harefield also spent Considerable time at pier 9 waiting for a new rudder part<\/a> after sustaining Ice Damage<\/a>. She was Joined at Pier 9 by the Stadt Caditz who suffered engine troubles<\/a> and also needed parts. Ex RCN Research vessel Cormorant took a List<\/a> in Bridgewater, and Ex Sea Shepard Conservation Society vessel Farley Mowat sunk<\/a>. Also worth a mention was the March Crash of AC624<\/a> at Halifax Airport.<\/p>\n Svitzer Won the contract<\/a> for tugs at Port Cartier, and imported Aussie Immigrants<\/a>. They also won a contract for and imported Svitzer Nerthus And Njal. <\/a> The Former Greek Ferry, Canada 2014 became the Fundy Rose<\/a> went on trials<\/a> and in the summer took her place as the replacement for Princess of Acadia.<\/a> The New Halifax Transit Ferry Craig Blake<\/a> was delivered and went into service in the spring.<\/p>\n The much delayed Bluenose The New Hibernia Atlantic Express Cable was laid<\/a>. Irving demolished and began reconstructing their wharf<\/a> in woodside, and The Bridge Commissions’ big lift got under way, with the arrival of Barges<\/a> \nThe Kings Wharf Harbour Taxi<\/a> went into service. <\/p>\n 2015 saw visits from numerous foreign Naval vessels including the Submarine USS Virginia<\/a> and the third LCS USS Milwaukee. US Coast guard Cutters USCGC Campbell<\/a> USCGC Bristol Bay<\/a> USCGC Morrow Bay<\/a> and the First visit for a National Security Cutter USCGC James<\/a>. French Rocket tracking ship FS MONGE <\/a> also stopped in avoiding weather. The PCTC Glovis Century tied up at pier 9<\/a> and unloaded Cars. This was to reduce her draft to load a military cargo<\/a> in Montreal. She picked up the cars on the way back. <\/p>\n CMA-CGM and the Oceans 3 Alliance add a stop in Halifax<\/a>. This Service is responsible for setting the biggest Ship record, first with the CMA-CGM Vivaldi <\/a> , which lost to Hapag Llyods Budapest Express<\/a> and Colombo Express<\/a> Finally regaining it with the Arrival of the USAC ZAMZAM<\/a> <\/p>\n \nThe RCN Paid off HMCS Iroquois on may 1,<\/a>The Nova Dock was sold<\/a>, Cut in two<\/a>, and towed to Tampa Florida<\/a>. and ACL began retiring<\/a> and scrapping<\/a> their conro vessels as the new series come online. The First, Atlantic Star arrives the first week of January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2015 was another eventful year at the Port of Halifax Incidents Australian Spirit was towed to Portugal for repairs. Harefield also spent Considerable time at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nNew Ships<\/h3>\n
\n II – was finally open to the public<\/a> and sailed on her own<\/a>. And the 2 new CCGS Hero class boats for the west<\/a> coast sailed there under there own power. <\/p>\n\nHarbour Works<\/h3>\n
\nremoval of the walkways<\/a>, and the replacement of the first sections<\/a>.<\/p>\n\nNavy News<\/h3>\n
\nBigger Ships<\/h3>\n
\nRetirements<\/h3>\n