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Shipping News and information / French Navy in Halifax - Joint Amphibious Exercise in GASPE

« on: June 17, 2014, 01:04:55 PM »

French frigate La Fayette and Amphibious Assault ship Mistral are in Halifax until tomorrow. They will sail for Gaspe with the 5th Mechanize brigade and practice amphibious landings.

http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2014/06/french-navy-port-visit.html

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Shipping News and information / Grand Tour of the Tug Victorious and the Barge John J Carrick

« on: March 20, 2014, 02:00:58 AM »

I was fortunate enough to get a grand tour of the Articulated tug and barge Victorious w/ John J Carrick. I have posted some photos on the blog. I was luckey enough to get to see the machinery spaces, though I wish I took more photos.

http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2014/03/the-grand-tour-of-tug-victorious-and.html

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Shipping News and information / Canadian Ice breaking Issues

« on: March 19, 2014, 12:46:00 PM »

Seems Canadian ship owners are unhappy with the Icebreaking services this year. In fairness to the Coast Guard, The ICE Service does say this is the worst year in 25 years for ice.
http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2014/03/ice-causing-delays.html

That said, it doesn't help that the largest icebreaker in the fleet may have spent its fuel budget for the year, and is laid up to the end of the fiscal year march 31.
http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2014/03/did-ccgs-louis-st-laurent-spend-its.html

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Shipping News and information / Maple Lea towed to Sydney NS

« on: February 22, 2013, 02:06:04 AM »

General cargo vessel Maple Lea reportedly suffered engine failure off Nova Scotia on Feb 17 13 and was adrift north of Prince Edward Island. According to AIS, vessel was en route to Skaw, Shetland.

http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2013/02/maple-lea-towed-to-sydney-after.html

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Shipping News and information / Renate Schulte Holed by her Anchor

« on: December 28, 2012, 05:14:04 PM »

The container vessel Renate Schulte was holed by her anchor before Christmas, (apparently the anchor came loose in bad weather crossing the atlantic) and has been tied up undergoing repairs since. Her Bow thruster compartment reportedly flooded.

http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2012/12/renate-schulte-has-hole.html

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Shipping News and information / Tug detained in Halifax

« on: December 21, 2012, 12:07:33 AM »

The ex us navy ex foss tug Craig Trans was detained in Halifax due to deficiencies including the crew running out of food 3 days prior to arrival
Details at http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2012/12/tug-craig-trans-detained.html?m=0

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Shipping News and information / Accidental Death aboard Bulker Techumseh

« on: December 03, 2012, 04:06:33 PM »

The Transportation Safety Board is on its way to Windsor to invistigate an accidental death. The Bulk Carrier Tecumseh was loading grain at Thunder Bay. TBSNewswatch.com Reports that "A 40-year-old Greater Toronto Area man is dead following an industrial mishap on Thunder Bay

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Shipping News and information / Tundra Aground in St Lawerence River

« on: November 29, 2012, 03:32:09 PM »

The Bulker Tundra, Which departed Montreal for Halifax loaded with soyabeans on Wendsday, ran aground outside the channel off Sorel-Tracy Quebec. The Transportation Safety Board reports they are on route.

Updates as they are Known: http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2012/11/tundra-aground-off-sorel-pq.html

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Shipping News and information / HMCS Windsor Dive test

« on: November 07, 2012, 08:21:07 PM »

HMCS Windsor Conducted a Camber Dive Test today. this is a pretty major milestone towards getting her operational again.

Photos at:
http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2012/11/hmcs-windsor-on-trials.html

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Shipping News and information / One Month of Traffic at the Port of Halifax

« on: October 18, 2012, 06:12:55 PM »

What do you do with all the data you collect from an AIS Reciver? Show a months worth of Traffic at once!
http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2012/10/one-month-of-traffic-visualized.html

The map was generated from the logs from Shipplotter. All the underway entries were collected, and imported as points to Arcgis. They were then converted to tracks, and applied to a basemap.

The plan is to do this with a full year of traffic, which is aproximately 1.2gb of data.

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Shipping News and information / Scotia Dock II being Scrapped

« on: August 02, 2012, 07:21:01 PM »

The Scotia Dock Departed halifax this afternoon to be scrapped in Florida. Shes being towed by the Eileen Mcallister.

It was noticed that Her Canadian Registry Was closed on June 22 of this year. In more recent weeks, her name has been painted over, and most recently her on board cranes have been lowered.

CBC News reported that the Scotia Dock II has been sold to Southern Recycling, a metal recycler on the Gulf of Mexico. The Chronicle Herald also reports that the Scotia Dock II was due to depart within 30 days (of June 22) once she was made seaworthy enough for the trip to the gulf

The Move:
http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2012/08/scotia-dock-ii-on-move.html
The Arrival:
http://blog.halifaxshippingnews.ca/2012/08/tug-eileen-mcallister-for-scotia-dock-ii.html