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Remember Laura Maersk, the unusual tow from back in mid-June? An engine room explosion disabled her, and she had to be towed in for repairs. Well . . . below are her tracks from yesterday . . . first sea trials . . . aka a “test drive” and then
she made a beeline for Panama, an excellent place to load. I forgot to mention it, but the two ULCVs in a recent post, Hyundai Drive was arriving from Cartagena CO and Cosco Shipping Rose, from Limon Bay Panama.
Before leaving, she was very light, like this.
Remember Mendonca came into port about two weeks ago?
Her portside stern half of the vessel has been stripped of coating. In a blown up version of the photo below, i count at least 10 yard workers.
One might conclude, correctly, that Maersk has the largest container fleet in the world by the number of Maersk vessels calling here. Below the Gunhilde, 1200′ loa, gets escorted in by Capt. Brian A. McAllister.
CPO Bremen, previously called Vancouver Express, heads out, as
does
Northern Magnum, previously called Los Angeles Express.
CMA CGM T. Jefferson winds her way through the KVK.
Johanna C loads scrap.
Spinel arrives,
as does MSC Elodie.
All photos, WVD.
aka “that you can choose your registry is something I’ve never fully understood.” I suppose some folks prefer the term “open registry.” Check all these different registries, FoCs, all taken in the past 30 days! Here are previous installments.
Let’s start with Maersk, the largest overseas cargo transport company in the world, based in Copenhagen, although with many overseas subsidiaries. Hvide Sande is a fishing, shipbuilding, windfarm supply port and tourist destination in the dunes of western Denmark.
Ringkøbing is a Danish town near Hvide Sande with history back to the 13th century.
Skovshoved is a fishing town just north of Copenhagen.
Kalundsborg is a Danish town with a natural harbor, also on the western coast.
Kleven is a port in southern Norway, southwest of Oslo. Monrovia is the 1822-settled capital of Liberia, about 5000 miles southwest of Copenhagen. A drive there would be quite the odyssey through a dozen or so countries. Of course, it’s also the name attached to a US-operated vessel registry established in 1948. It’s the world’s second largest registry, after Panama.
Singapore ranks 5th.
And then there’s the US-flagged Maersk vessels. For its first five years, this 2008-built vessel was called Safmarine Kariba.
For a lengthy but clear discussion on FoCs, including how the choice of flag relates to “end of [ship’s] life” issues, click here, but only if you’ve a half hour or so to devote.
Of course, Maersk is not the only company that flags foreign. In fact, most do. Here’s a CMA CGM ULCV named for a US president and flagged in Malta.
Another US president, and another port of registry. T. Roosevelt is also a London-registered CMA CGM ULCV.
Marseille is what you’d expect, since they are headquartered there. The US headquarters are in the great port of . . . Atlanta. I’d love to see CMA CGM ships on the Chattahoochee.
Madeira is a tiny archipelago where this ship will never call.
Jeju sounds like a lovely island, although this RORO will never be seen there.
Oleander is THE supply vessel for Bermuda. It surprises me greatly that this vessel would be named for a Pacific atoll.
I’m wondering if the Hong Kong registry will be shedding vessels, given the changes in the special administrative region of the larger country.
A Turkish ship with a Turkish registry . . . now that I’d expect.
All photos, comments, and misunderstanding . . . all credited and/or blamed on WVD.
Speaking of ships, do you recognize the name Rhosus, a 1986 Moldova-flagged general cargo ship? You should . . . you’ve certainly heard what happened to its cargo this past week . . . . Moldova-flagged . . . I’ll bet that falls under the category of grey flags or worse.
It’s been a while since I’ve acknowledged this my favorite time of day. Golden hour at 80+ degrees is quite different than it at 40- degrees. But here are my shots; I took them and then headed for the shade.
Larry J Hebert lies alongside the dredge and Mister Jim is happening by, westbound. Actually, i took this about 15 minutes after sunrise on a muggy morning. The haze makes it appear everything and everyone in the boros is asleep, except those on the sixth boro.
Laura Maersk, in a haze of very cantaloupe colors, waits to sail and carry cargo again.
Mister Jim, continues, a few minutes later.
By the time Wolf River passes, carrying crews to and from the dredging operation, the morning atmosphere has changed to orange.
I move farther west, and looking back to where I’d been, a cluster of traffic heads toward me.
Ernest Campbell and barge have a Maersk ship following them.
When Andrea passes, the ridge begins to look like a featureless mass, a tear of greenish blueberry.
All photos, WVD.
What’s visible for now is Pegasus and Maersk Seletar, but behind the container ship and soon to emerge
is Mukaddes Kalkavan. A few hours later, I saw Seletar doing 22 kts heading south along the Jersey coast. Seletar is an area in Singapore.
Ava escorts Mukaddes Kalkavan into the port from the starboard bow.
Scot Munchen is a relatively small tanker ( 383′ x 59′) with an unusual superstructure design. Here‘s the fleet of this Istanbul-based company, all incorporating the same stack design.
Here’s a photo from about 0500, Ava is assisting Hyundai Smart into Bayonne. The name Hyundai Smart connotes automotive to me.
Ever Liberal heads out to sea.
with Jonathan Moran assisting past the Bouchard flock.
And finally, this is the Laura Maersk that back already a month ago was towed into the sixth boro as a fully loaded dead ship due to an engine explosion.
Light in the water, this container ship shows a different profile.
All photos, WVD.
I’ve seen unusual tows before 2019, but it was only then that I started counting. I’ll add links to previous unusual tows at the end of this post. So where’s the tow?
It’s (l to r) Mary Alice, Laura Maersk, and Emily Ann, all behind Atlantic Enterprise.
The story is simple if unfortunate . . .
You’ve no doubt experienced the same with your car, or boat . . . Something happens, and you need a tow. This one started a few days ago, as you can read in the link in the previous sentence. Here‘s more detail.
Fire Fighter II met the tow as it approached the Narrows.
Mary Alice had starboard,
Emily Ann had port.
The trio delivered the container ship to Stapleton. Moran tugs took the ship from there to the container docks.
Today’s weather was fabulous and seas flat, not so a few days ago.
All photos, WVD.
Some previous unusual tows might be these of Wavertree, Peking, Lehigh Valley 79, Dorothy McAllister and mystery ship, the future OHP, Thorco Hilde, SS Columbia, and I could go on . . . Maybe I need to add some appropriate tags.
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