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Wednesday morning she came in,
MSC Lisa, and as of this posting, she’s already moved on to Philly, having arrived there right around dawn today, even with an unknown number of her 5000 boxes shifted in Port Elizabeth and navigated the 240 miles between the two ports. So this raises a question of previous ports. When she emerged from the fog, where had she been since February 1, 2024?
Draft markings show she’s not quite scraping the bottom.
Got your answers? Which ports has she made since February 1?
Before arriving in NYS’s sixth boro, she had taken about 7 days en route from Sines; before that 12 days enroute from Haifa; before that half a day to get there from Piraeus; before that less than half a day to get there from Nemrut, and we’ve only gone back to the first week of February. That makes her a local, a ship making local stops across the Med at least.
All tallied, she traveled the distance in the title in 2023, 48 ports. MSC solidified its position as the world’s largest shipping line. I’d love to know how many boxes she moved last year and in her lifetime.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Here was “pairs in winter 8” from four years ago. The others can be found in the search window. The title started as my attempt to be too clever and parody this Edith Piaf title, which someone else–not me–liked. Number 4 might be my favorite.
Not much to say other than that yesterday morning was quite foggy before the rain started. Eventually I gave up because the fog got too thick, gruelly although not quite peasoup. Fog serves almost as a way to narrow the depth of field; the names of Caroline M and Mount St Elias are clear but farther from them, details drop out.
Ditto Dace with RTC 83 and Silver Dubai,
Bohemia and Doris,
Brian Nicholas and Stephen Dann,
Kirby and Mary,
and the incongruous Gelberman and MSC Lisa.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Unrelated but interesting: a gray whale off Nantucket!
Here are previous installments.
JRT and Doris
above Kirby and below Kirby, JRT and Margaret
Laura K on the stern of Ever Fine
Laura, Margaret, and JRT surround Fine.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s traveling.
This follows on a post from two months ago, when ONE Blue Jay arrived, and I listed some of the recent Bird-class callers. ONE Owl departed yesterday, and within hours was speeding toward Singapore with an ETA of after day 1 of spring 2024. “Speeding” applies if 16 or 17 knots (approx. 20 mph) is what you’d call speeding, but Singapore by way of Cape of Good Hope is a long ways away.
Bow-first into the berth means stern-first out, and a number of tugboats facilitate the rotation from bow west to bow south and pointed toward the Narrows. Here it’s (l to r) JRT, Doris, and Kirby.
Count the containers? I see 20 wide.
One job done, a new team heads out to meet an incoming ULCV or smaller.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who went looking for references to sea owls.
I found these fish owls and this strangely named one.
A bit over two years ago, OWL 1 was in the boro here.
My “scale” posts go way back to 2007 here. I’m still wowed easily, and I’m not apologizing for that. You’ll see what I mean here.
Earlier this month, Teal Ray was assisted into her berth by Laura K. Moran and Kimberly Turecamo.
Imagine the view of the ship’s deck from Kimberly‘s upper wheelhouse, compared with the view of Titan here from Grace.
Here Bruce A McAllister assisted Zim Atlantic last weekend.
Yesterday, Capt Brian did assist on an outbound Dubai Express.
Ross Sea and got assisted in by Kirby.
Compared with the view above of Kirby, check out the perspective from JRT of CMA CGM Callisto.
All photos, any errors, WVD
Japan Marine United built 15 of these 14000-teu magenta container vessels. Many if not all have appeared on this blog. How many can you name?
This one intrigued me because 1) I’d not seen it before, 2) I thought the choice of bird was peculiar, and 3) it was first of the class of 15 launched, almost eight years ago.
Let me help jog your memory: recently ONE Apus, Grus, Hawk, and Wren have called.
ONE Blue Jay is the original of the series. For a list of all of them. click here.
I’d have expected more sea birds, like puffin, gannet, skua, petrel, razorbill . . . .
All photos, any errors, WVD, who was not consulted in Japan Marine United’s naming process.
Here’s a change the sixth boro scenery. I hope you like the result. If you work on this project, then you know exactly where this is, and yes . . . it’s the sixth boro dry land as background in all these photos.
This location you know, but from a different angle; in fact, maybe you saw the view from the bluff here.
These photos are from just around the corner, beyond VZ to the SW.
This is Great Beds Light, as seen from an opposite perspective as you saw here. And that tugboat in the distance, you’ve seen it before here and here.
That’s Yemitzis. And to identify the as yet unidentified ones above, let’s start from the first photo: Patricia Jean, Kirby Moran, and Bering Dawn.
And to the lower right of Weeks E-crane, that’s
Jesso O. My question, if you’re working with the E-crane project here, is whether the Cashman and Stasinos equipment above are working on that same project. If so, it sounds fascinating.
Kendall J. Hebert, working with Cashman, is still a seldom-seen boat in the boro.
Unrelated except that’s it’s in the channel off SW Staten Island and that in the sixth boro, it’s seldom seen (on this blog),
it’s tugboat Barbara Carol Ann Moran with barge Louisiana. And that church, with an interesting history, is Mount Loretto.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Pink
has many associations. Since 2014, Moran has painted their “M” pink to promote awareness of breast cancer. Since then, other towing companies followed suit.
In solidarity with those efforts, I’m posting these photos of four Moran boats
assisting in a ULCV into the Bayonne terminal yesterday.
In the fog that obscured much of the usual background,
the pink really burst through.
This is my first time to see ONE Grus, which translates as crane in keeping with the bird names for these box boats.
Hawk, Wren, Ibis, Stork, Apus, and the list goes on here but scroll through to the ONE alphabetical section . . .
All photos, any errors, WVD, with hat tip to Moran for getting this started. Here was 1.
If you’re new to this blog, the Kill van Kull (KVK) is the waterway leading to the major container port in NYC/NJ. It’s a great place to see lots of shipping in a short period of time, and I prefer seeing that traffic as the sun rises. Today, as often, that was true. These photos I took during a 20-minute period, while I stayed in the same spot.
Above, as CMA CGM Apollon rounded the bend, the Hudson River’s own Mary Turecamo headed toward sunrise for its own job.
Jonathan C followed the CMA CGM ship, as Margaret Moran went to her next job.
Laura K Moran shifted her location as the box ship headed for then bridge and the sharp turn.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s happy to be back in the sixth boro for a while.
I don’t want to be too predictable with this title.
Check out Miss Madeline and Emma Rose on a foggy morning.
Later that foggy day, it was Everly Mist and Emma Rose.
That same foggy day, Kirby Moran and Kimberly Turecamo saw Northern Jubilee out of town.
Heading for the next job, Alex and Marjorie B. McAllister pass my location, like a brace of oxen I never photographed when I could have back in the 1980s.
Here Patrice and Ava M overtake Ever Fame and travel to their next appointment.
Justine and Ava see OOCL Brussels into port. Invisible here is Patrice on the far side.
As Nicole Leigh waits with RTC 135 at IMTT, Josephine passes by with RTC 83.
Cape Fear gets an assist from Wye River.
Fells Point gets an assist from Cape Fear.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who will soon be making a major but temporary change of venue.
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