Container ships, cargo carriers and more vessels bound for Halifax the week of Feb. 13-19.
One of Halifax’s greatest strange-but-true elements of local lore is that, somewhere at the bottom of the Bedford Basin, there are about 20 to 30 Volvos sitting on the harbour floor. There’s a lengthier story to be told about how they got there—one that Jalopnik’s Máté Petrány gets into here—but the short (and unconfirmed) version is that in the 1980s, a container ship didn’t have the right papers prepared for its Volvo shipment…