The 366-metres-long ‘CMA CGM Brazil’ called at the Port of Halifax in the morning of 10 September, becoming the largest container ship ever to call at a Canadian port.
The 15,072 TEU ship berthed at PSA Halifax at approximately 12:00 a.m. ADT, as part of its weekly Columbus JAX service, from South Asia to the East Coast of America.
This inaugural call of the CMA CGM Brazil comes shortly after the arrival of Eastern Canada’s largest ship-to-shore super post-Panamax crane in July 2020, bringing the total number of SPPX cranes at PSA Halifax to five.
With a terminal area of 32 ha, a quay length of 1,045m and a depth of 16.5m, PSA Halifax is the only port in Eastern Canada that can accommodate ultra-class vessels.
The Halifax Port Authority is in the final stage of completion of a deep-water berth extension which will bring the total quay length to 800 metres to meet the growing deployment of Ultra Class Container Vessels.
The arrival of this ship soon after the delivery of our newest and largest crane demonstrates the benefits of our step-wise development of PSA Halifax,
…said Kim Holtermand, CEO & Managing Director at PSA Halifax.
French shipping giant CMA CGM Group is the only company offering a direct service between Halifax and South Asia. It is also the only carrier offering shipping services from Canada’s five largest ports, which translated to more than 450 calls and approximately 500,000 TEUs in 2019.