Marine Recycling Corp. of Port Colborne, Ont., has been awarded a $5.7-million contract the Athabaskan. The Work will take place in Sydney NS, and needs to be complete by July 2019. Sadly, it looks like she wont become a museum…
Cruise Halifax on an ACL Con-ro.
A new cargo-passenger service between Europe and North America is available with the five new ACL vessels G4 vessels. The five newly-built vessels operating on this Line are the Atlantic Sail, Atlantic Sea, Atlantic Sky, Atlantic Star...
Read More »Dartmouth III in Toronto
Dartmouth III Tied up in Toronto. Photo from Carl...
Read More »Symphony Star
Tied up at pier 30 this morning after waiting out weather offshore. She was originally due earlier in the week. High in the water, she appears unladen and may be here to load grain or...
Read More »Radcliffe R Latimer at pier 27
The unladen bulk carrier tied up earlier today after waiting weather out at anchor in the Bedford Basin It’s possible that she will lay up here for the...
Read More »NRU Asterisk
Finally got a picture of her , tied up at pier...
Read More »2017 Year in Review
2017 marked Canada’s 150th birthday, and the 9th year of HalifaxShippingNews.ca. For Canada’s 150th Celebration The port saw 2 notable events – the RDV2017 tall ships regatta featuring vessels in Halifax, Dartmouth, and on parade...
Read More »December catchup
December is always a busy month, and this past December lead to a lack of posting, though a number of notable things happened. The bow section of the future HMCS Harry Dewolf was rolled out and attached, giving us the…
New Tanker Beothuk Spirit
The New build shuttle tanker Beothuk Spirit arrived at pier 9 yesterday morning on her delivery voyage from Korea. She will go into service shuttling crude oil from the Hiberina and Hebron Oil Fields off Newfoundland to various...
Read More »Addtional Announced CSC Bids
Bids for the CSC were due today, and 2 additional bids have been publicly announced. the French/Italian consortium has proposed their FREMM Design, used by france, italy, morocco and egypt, and under consideration by Australia. in an interesting...
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