Ships of Kanmon Strait

a fine looking ro-ro vessel in the Wallenius Wilhemsen fleet sailed thru the Kanmon Strait early afternoon December 10, 2024. Ship Freakazoid captured this PCTC (pure car and truck carrier) vessel in photographs and on video for your viewing pleasure. TOREADOR (IMO 9375288) Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ro-Ro Vehicles Carrier This automobile carrier is, at the time of uploading, heading from Singapore to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and also frequents ports in Korea and Japan (Kobe, Yokohama, etc.) Photographs were taken with an Olympus E520 DSLR and Zuiko 150mm lens held in SF's factory issued hands. Roro Automobiles Carrier TOREADOR in the Kanmon Straits of Japan Vessel Name: Toreador Vessel Class: PCTC Vessel Type: Vehicles Carrier (Roro) Year Built: 2008 Flag: Malta IMO #: 9375288 MMSI #: 248910000 Call Sign: 9HA4856 Gross Tonnage: 61,328 Deadweight: 22,144 (MT) Capacity Cars: 6,354 (RT43) Hoistable Decks: 4 Max RoRo Hei...

Timber carrier probably loaded with Canadian lumber and going from Nanaiomo Canada to Qingdao China (aka Tsingtao West Taiwan) as it sailed between Shimonoseki City and the wards of Moji and Kokura Kita of Kitakyushu City on the sunny winter day of December 10, 2024 at around 12:50 in the afternoon.  MOZU ARROW (IMO 8918227) This may be the first lumber carrier to be knowingly captured by Ship Freakazoid. After having seen a crew made video of a timber carrier's voyage from the great State of Washington, USA to Japan, it was nice to catch Mozu Arrow on its journey from North America to East Asia. The usual suspect, an Olympus e-520 DSLR camera with Zuiko 150mm lens, was used to take photographs for your viewing pleasure. No trees or butterflies were harmed during the photography or filming of this ship as it sailed past. Canadian lumber heading to China on the timber carrier vessel Mozu Arrow   Video was taken using an old JVC Everio video camera with Konica Minolta 54x lens o...

was a busy body in the Kanmon Straits on November 11th 2024. This state of the art, high speed, high precision survey ship measures water depth for the dredging and improving of the Kanmon Waterway. Kaien (海燕) helps ships safely pass thru the straits by measuring the water's depth. Rumor has it KAIEN (MMSI 431007457 / IMO 4194304) Japan MLIT Survey Vessel   海燕  測量船 ★ KAIEN Survey Vessel In the above photograph Kaien can be seen hard at work surveying the Kanmon Strait while the Korean container ship Heung A Sarah of the Heung-A fleet sails past Shimonoseki and Kitakyushu. This aluminum catamaran is able to travel and conduct surveys quickly due to its lightweight construction and excellent stability.  Note the black LED message display board on the side of the ship (above and below) which indicated in four languages (English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese) the message "SURVEY UNDERWAY" to passing vessels in the strait and ship freakazoids on shore. 海燕  測量船 ★ KAIEN Surv...

The Korean container ship Heung-A Sarah sailed thru the Kanmon Straits on November 11, 2024. It was a nice day to see a nice ship that has been known to frequent the ports of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Busan. Korean container ship Heung-A Sarah in Japanese waters Vessel Name: HEUNG-A SARAH Length: 141.03 meters Width: 23.00 meters IMO: 9698379 Flag: Korea MMSI: 440385000 Type: Container Ship Call Sign: D7KO Gross Tonnage: 9599 tons Built: 2014 HEUNG A LINE container ship HEUNG A SARAH According to the Heung-A Line homepage: "Heung-A Line is based on Heung-A Shipping, which was established in 1961, and has been writing a new history of the Korean shipping industry through integration with Sinokor Merchant Marine since 2020 Since the launch of the Korea-Japan liner container service in 1961, it has grown into the one of the largest intra-Asia liner shipping company with more than 1.2 mi...

General cargo ship JOYO 1 was photographed in the Kanmon Strait of Japan from the shores of the Garden Paradise Kitakyushu on a swell November 11, 2024 afternoon. JOYO 1 , a general cargo ship sailing past Japan's coast This vessel sails under the Flag of Belize.  Never been, but hear Belize is all sorts of awesome.  Next time I'm in the neighborhood, it might be time to bop in and say "Hello" and/or "Hola" and buy some peanuts from Mennonite children.  Friends who have been say the beaches are really nice... Anyway, here is some video of Joyo 1 sailing between Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki. This cargo ship has been known to frequent the ports of Kawasaki Japan, Sorong Indonesia, and Shanghai West Taiwan (when the CCP collapses Ship Freakazoid thinks China's name will be more accurately renamed West Taiwan).  General cargo ship sailing by a buoy in the blue ocean of Japan Oh BUOY!!!  Looks like JOYO 1 could use a little TLC and touch up paint work.  Still a...

This lovely Sanyo Kaiun Shokai Co., Ltd. tankship sailed thru the Kanmon Straits and past the pollution producing factories of Kitakyushu Japan in the early afternoon of November 11, 2024. The tanker Showa Maru #8 often travels thru the strait going to and from Oita and Hakata (Fukuoka). Japanese tankship in the Kanmon Strait Vessel Name: SHOWA MARU No.8 第八正和丸 Length: 48.50 meters Width: 9.60 meters Flag: Japan Type: Tankship / Tank Ship / Tanker Call Sign: JL6217 Gross Tonnage: 363.00 G/T Built: March 20, 2019 Navagation Area: Coastal Cargo Capacity: 666 kl Pump Capacity: 500 x 2 第八正和丸 SHOWA MARU No.8 (Dai Hachi Showa Maru) This vessel is probably carrying kerosene or some other sort of 白油 or "light oil." Even in the 21st century and with modern housing, many Japanese still like to use kerosene heaters in their homes and offices during the colder winter months. Ship Freakazoid is not ...

appears to be drag racing another ship thru the Kanmon Straits!!! あさか (ホンダの内航自動車運搬船) Asaka, like other Honda domestic car carriers, sports a light blue and bright white paint job worthy of being sung about in a Jan & Dean or Beach Boys hotrod song.   Honda Motors domestic car carrier ASAKA sailing the Kanmon Strait Wonder if it is hauling drag racing cars, F-1 racing cars, or plain old stock Honda cars and trucks for lame folks like Keiko and Manabu... Video of this lovely vessel may be viewed at: https://youtu.be/PyA2umkrEyY ASAKA (IMO 9700201) sailing past Garden Paradise Kitakyushu Japan Vessel Name: ASAKA Flag: Japan Length: 118.03 meters Width: 16.6 meters IMO: 9700201 MMSI; 431005691 Call Sign: JD3690 Vessel Type: Cargo / Vehicles Carrier ASAKA a Ro-Ro Auto Carrier Vessel for Honda Motors "It's not a big oil tanker just a groovy little cargo ship..." would be some fun alternate lyrics to the song "Little Honda...