MSC Cristiana Departs Baltimore June 4, 2019

This 199x32m (653x105ft) roro vehicles carrier was built in 2011 by STX (Dalian) Shipbuilding Company in Dalian, China according to scheepvaartwest. Like the Cattleya Ace that arrived in late May, this ship threw me for a bit of a loop when I was researching it because this name had been previously used on another ship. In the above case it was the same type of ship but in this case the previous MSC Cristiana was a container ship that was built in 1984 as a general cargo ship and converted in 2006 and sold for scrap in 2009 (sources BalticShipping.com and this shipbreaking PDF). This ship and her predecessor are both Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ships.

In the first scene this ship, wearing a classy black and white paint scheme, can be seen passing the inbound bulker Panafrican. In the last scene the inbound bulker Mykonos Bay can be seen.

The cruise ship American Star also arrived this day as well as bulkers Panafrican and Mykonos Bay.

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