Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Sunny weather and hopefully busier days


Bright sunshine greeted the 9891 dwt. cargo vessel Nordanhav which arrived at the inner pilot station about 1230 hours and headed in tho the Port Hawkesbury paper dock .APA pilot on board was Capt. Evan MacDonald of Port Hood.Its last trip to this port was back on the 16th of January and the air was quite a bit colder.
       The pilot boat Strait Eagle was in service today.The Nordanhav sailed from the the port of Barcarena with a cargo of clay for the papermill.
        Alongside the Strait Superport Corp'n  at Mulgrave the buoy tender Earl Greys' crew  was busy handling large buoys.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Bulk carrier Antwerpen at the quarry dock .

The 41,100 dwt bulk carrier Antwerpen arrived at the south pilot station late Saturday night and was later docked at the Martin Marietta Materials loading dock portside to.She will be loading about 37,150 tons of construction aggregate and will depart for Port Manatee in Florida.


     Prior to coming to the Strait the vessel had delivered a load of coal to Sydney.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Eagle Boston inbound.

    APA pilot Elias Dorey was on the bridge of the inbound crude oil tanker Eagle Boston .The 99,328 dwt vessel was eventually  docked at the Nustar outside berth.
      I managed to get a photo of it from Janvrins Island just as the snow was starting over Chedabucto Bay .

M/V CSL Acadian and M/V Sivota

I apologize for the late timing of my very 'punctual', first blog posting. More to come in due time..

Wednesday, February 13, 2013.

We start our story from the cape-size, bulk carrier M/V 'Sivota'.

 


The 292 M vessel has come here from a USA load port with a partial cargo of coal. She is too large to load to full capacity in the States, and has come to our port in order to load a remaining cargo of coal.
Pilot boat 'Strait Falcon' can also be seen here awaiting the disembarking pilot from 'CSL Acadian'.

The smaller, (yet very large) M/V 'CSL Acadian' is seen coming-about in back ground. She has come to transfer more coal into the 'Sivota' so that vessel can sail to Asian destinations and discharge the coal. We also see the 'Strait Rider', my faithful taxi/tow service.



The Point Valiant was on a busy schedule today. Here the tug can be seen laying into the 'CSL Acadian' holding both vessels in position -


 - While Captains S. Kalyuzhny of CSL Acadian, and S. MacDonald of Atlantic Pilotage maneuver this 245 M vessel along side the 'Sivota'.





This operation took approximately 30 hours to complete and both vessels sailed away in the end. 'Sivota' is on her way to Asia while the 'CSL Acadian' and her hard working crew is on the way back to the USA for another load of coal, for yet another cape-size vessel.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Fundy Leader & Friends

Things were busy on the waterfront in Arichat today. The day started out with the Fundy Leader arriving for an 8 am offload.She was then followed by 2 Halibut boats. Logan & Morgan and Benji & Sisters from the south shore of Nova Scotia. This was  their first ever visit to Arichat. Their unexpected visit was due to weather condidtions following our weekend storm.








M/V Baldock and M/T Jurkalne



    The self unloading bulk carrier Baldock rounded Eddy Point about 1340 h. inbound on the trait of Canso heading to the martin Marietta Materials loading dock at Aulds Cove to take on a cargo of construction aggregates that will be unloaded in Mobile Alabama.
       APA pilot Capt. Elias Dorey was in command on the bridge and directed the tugs Svitzer Bedford and Point Valiant in the docking manouvers.
       Meanwhile the tanker Jurkalne was spotted by this correspondent at the Nustar berth One discharging its cargo.

Monday, February 18, 2013

  Stormy weather and most especially the high winds lately has been affecting vessel traffic again here in the Strait area but at about 1645h the 52,620 dwt oil products tanker Jurkalne was finally docked at Nustar Ocean Berth One.An attempt the previous night was aborted due to the nasty weather.The tanker is expected to be in port about 24 hours.

  Also waiting to come in is the self-unloading bulk carrier Baldock which has also been on weather watch and is destined for the Martin Marietta Quarry dock at Aulds Cove when conditions permit..

Saturday, February 16, 2013









A bright sunny day made watching the European Spirit depart a bit of a pleasure.The vessel got off the Nustar dock about 1445 hours with APA pilot Chuck MacDonald directing the operation from the bridge.The tugs Svitzer Bedford,Point Valiant and Point Chebucto all paticipated in the manouver and all 3 provided escort til the ship had gotten past Eddy Point.The vessel was headed to New York and had 700,000 barrels of crude oil onboard.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

PIONEER & EUROPEAN SPIRIT

Bulk Carrier PIONEER unloading coal at the Point Tupper Generating Station Pier.





Information courtesy of  Maritime Connector
http://maritime-connector.com/ship/pioneer-7925613/

IMO number 7925613
Name of the ship PIONEER
Type of ship BULK CARRIER
MMSI 576048000
Gross tonnage 24113 tons
DWT 37448 tons
Year of build 1981
Builder SEAWAY MARINE & INDUSTRIAL - ST.CATHARINES, CANADA
Flag VANUATU
Home port PORT VILA
Class society LLOYD´S SHIPPING REGISTER
Manager & owner: CSL INTERNATIONAL - BEVERLY MA, U.S.A.
Former names: CANADIAN PIONEER (not yet confirmed)

MT EUROPEAN SPIRIT

TEE KAY Shipping's EUROPEAN SPIRIT at Berth # 1 at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia.




Information courtesy of  Maritime Connector
http://maritime-connector.com/ship/european-spirit-9247429/


IMO number 9247429
Name of the ship EUROPEAN SPIRIT
Type of ship CRUDE OIL TANKER
MMSI 311499000
Gross tonnage 79668 tons
DWT 151848 tons
Year of build 2003Builder
HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES - ULSAN, SOUTH KOREA
Flag BAHAMAS
Home port NASSAU
Class society DET NORSKE VERITAS
Manager & owner TEEKAY MARINE GLASGOW - GLASGOW, U.K.