Ships of Kanmon Strait

SANYOMARU No.56・第五十六三洋丸 The Sanyo Maru #26 sailed the Kanmon Straits on January 6, 2025. This sleek looking little tanker has been known to frequent dumps like Ube and Iwakuni after passing by the heavenly cities of Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki.  Vessel Name: SANYOMARU No.56・第五十六三洋丸 Vessel Number: 140753 (from the Sanyo Kaiun Shokai homepage) Vessel Type: Oil Products Tanker IMO: 9474149 MMSI: 431000568 Call Sign: JD2646 Gross Tonnage: 748.00 G/T Navigation Area: Coastal Cargo Type: 白油・CPP Cargo Quantity: 2,199 KL Length Overall: 71.57 m Beam: 12.00 m Depth: 5.20 m Pump Capacity: 750 × 2 Launch Date: February 2008 Sanyo has quite an impressive fleet of tankers. Either move to Garden Paradise Kitakyushu and watch them pass thru the straits or simply check out their website: http://www.kk-sanyo.co.jp/about.html Party on! It might be the Year 2025, and man is still alive, but party like it's 1999!

This vessel sailed the Kanmon Straits between Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki Japan on its way from Kobe (departed Jan 5th) to Busan Korea (arrived Jan 6th) in this sure to be wonderful Year of the Snake 2025. Honor Ocean - Container ship sailing from Kobe to Busan Vessel Name: HONOR OCEAN Length: 122 meters Width: 22 meters IMO: 9158745 Flag: Panama MMSI: 352002265 Vessel Type: Container Ship Call Sign: 3E3839 Gross Tonnage: 6393 Deadweight: 8018 Built: 1998 Container ship Honor Ocean in Japan's Kanmon Straits This vessel sailed the Kanmon Straits between Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki Japan on its way from Kobe (departed Jan 5th) to Busan Korea (arrived Jan 6th). It doesn't look like it is carrying much cargo. It must be saving space for, oh, let's see ... Yo Mama!!!   

Atago Maru No. 2 ★ 第二あたご丸 (IMO 8922711)   Vessel Name: Atago Maru No. 2 ★ 第二あたご丸 Vessel Type: Oil Products Tanker IMO: 8922711 MMSI: 431400531 Call Sign: JK5460 Length: 49.19 meters Width: 8.00 meters Year Built: March 1996 Engine: 1D/1,000 PS Gross Tonnage: 199 Deadweight: 543 Ship Freakazoid captured this vessel on a chilly winter noon, January 6th, 2025 with an Olympus E520 DSLR camera with Zuiko 150mm lens (photo above) and JVC Everio EV-E265-N video camera with 54x Konica Minolta lens mounted on Slik tripod (video below). No filters were used, no editing was performed, and voodoo doctors were not utilized in the production of what you see. Footage was shot from the Garden Paradise Kitakyushu Kokura North Ward stretch of the Kanmon Straits of Japan. 

NS United's coastal cargo ship often travels to/from Nagoya and frequents ports in Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki. After this video was taken, Hiroshima moored at the Tobata Port, which is located in a lovely area of the Garden Paradise Kitakyushu and accessible from the Kanmon Strait. The refreshing light blue color of the hull is typical of many coastal cargo ships in the NS United fleet and really brightens up the sea on dreary winter days. Here is video of the general cargo HIROSHIMA・ひろしま (IMO 9743447) recorded with an old secondhand JVC Everio video camera mounted on a used Slik tripod: And, here are some photos and details on this vessel. HIROSHIMA・ひろしま (IMO 9743447) Olympus E520 with Zuiko 150 mm lens. No filter.  Some bird photo bombed the ship. Photo taken on January 6, 2025. One of the first batch of photos and video taken by Ship Freakazoid in the New Year. Vessel Name: HIROSHIMA ・ ひろしま Length: 76 meters Width: 12 meters IMO: ...