The 2011-built cargo vessel AAL Paris at Poole in November 2024.
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The Port of Poole welcomed its largest ever cargo ship on 18 November 2024, when the cargo vessel AAL Paris (2011/22,863gt) arrived to unload around 100 containers, having departed the Korean port of Masan on 3 October 2024. The ship, which measures 180m by 28m, was escorted to the South Quay berth (which can handle ships up to 210m) by the port tug Herbert Ballam (1998), as well as the specially chartered Fowey Harbour tug Cannis (1982).
The Cypriot-flagged AAL Paris sailed again on 20 November for the German port of Bremen with her remaining deck cargo including wind turbine components and four cruise ship tenders, the latter probably destined for Phoenix Reisen’s Artania (1984) (see page 13), which required new tenders while she was in dry dock at Bremerhaven.