Grand Champion Comes to Baltimore October 31, 2020

This 199x32m (653x105ft) Panama flagged roro ship was built in 2008 by Shin Kurishima Dockyard in Tokyo, Japan and is owned by Pusan, South Korea based CIDO Shipping according to BalticShipping.com.

I didn’t find a source that indicates specifically for this ship but this size ship usually carries about 6,400 cars.

According to this ImportInfo page (which may be dynamic and may look different by the time you see it) it would appear this ship carries a wide variety of different cars from different makers around the world.

I was not able to discover any news items on this ship.

Check out this 2014 video of this ship getting help from 4 tugs to dock in Emden, Germany on a windy day. This video shows her making a departure in 2018 from Fremantle, Australia.

In my 8 minute video below she can be seen arriving from the Chesapeake Bay before turning onto the Patapsco River as she makes her way to Baltimore, Maryland. Pilot boat Baltimore can be seen alongside as the ship nears the camera’s position. Tugs Gramma Lee T Moran and April Moran arrive later in the video to give the ship docking assistance. The final scenes show the tugs returning home from a different vantage point.

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