CARDIFF - Weds 17th June 2020

2020	Arr/Dep	Type	Name	From/To	Berth	load/dis. Cargo
10-Jun	arr	Tg	Tioga B	Barrow?	Penarth	Plough dredging/levelling
11-Jun	arr	SD	Welsh Piper	Avonm'th/Culver	Empire	discharge sand/aggregate
11-Jun	arr	Tch	Bergen Troll	Holyhead	No 1 Oil	load bunker fuel
12-Jun	dep	Tg	MTS Victory	Rotterdam
12-Jun	dep	misc	Skyline Barge 21	Rotterdam
12-Jun	dep	SD	Welsh Piper	Culver/Swansea
13-Jun	dep	Tch	Bergen Troll	Avonmouth
13-Jun	arr	SD	Arco Dart	Newport/Culver	Hansons	discharge sand/aggregate
13-Jun	arr	SD	Welsh Piper	Swansea/Culver	Empire	discharge sand/aggregate
14-Jun	dep	SD	Welsh Piper	Culver/Avonm'th
14-Jun	arr	SD	Welsh Piper	Avonm'th/Culver	Empire	discharge sand/aggregate
15-Jun	dep	SD	Welsh Piper	Culver/P Talbot
15-Jun	arr	SD	City Of Cardiff	Pembroke/Culver	Hansons	discharge sand/aggregate
15-Jun	dep	SD	City Of Cardiff	NBD/Avonmouth
15-Jun	dep	SD	Arco Dart	Culver Bank
15-Jun	dep	Tch	Northern Skagerrak	Pembroke Dock
15-Jun	arr	SD	Arco Dart	Culver Bank	Hansons	discharge sand/aggregate
16-Jun	dep	SD	Arco Dart	Culver/Newport
17-Jun	arr	Sd	Arco Dart	Newport/Culver	Hansons	discharge sand/aggregate
17-Jun	arr	Tch	Thun Liverpool	Milford Haven	Valero	Discharge oil products
17-Jun	arr	D	Sospan Dau (2)	Shoreham	Cdf Pool	dredging ent to Cdf Bay
17-Jun	dep	SD	Arco Dart	Culver/Newport

Click on ships name (coloured orange) above, for link to photo and ship details on this site.
Shipping movements information gathered from ABP South Wales and other sources.

SOSPAN DAU			IMO:	7711062
Year	1978	Flag:	Netherlands
Gross	1,546	Deadweight	2,134
Length:	70.4	Beam	14.3	Draught:	3.1
ex           Aldergrund -92, Badebec -01

Sospan Dau at work, dredging the entrance channel to Cardiff Bay.

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CARDIFF - Mon 5th March 2012

The container ship Judith Borchard arrived from Liverpool today and sailed for Leixoes on 6th.


Name                                   Flag                 Year      Tonnage       LOA       Beam
SOSPAN DAU                 Netherlands         1978        2134           71            14

Sospan Dau

She arrived from Harwich on 5th March and spent a few days alongside before moving out to carry out the annual dredging of the Cardiff Bay entrance in conjunction with the small tug Tioga B.
I've included another picture of Sospan Dau because she has undergone something of a rebuild since her last visit.  Starting at the bow, she has had a framework fitted to allow the anchors to clear the new bulbous bow. The jack up (?) leg appears to have been removed from the foredeck. Moving to the superstructure, another deck has been added, increasing the height of the bridge and a new taller funnel has been fitted - a further aft than the old one.
She's not a pretty ship but I think the changes are a great improvement and guess the skipper can see where he's going now.