VESSEL RENAMING:
“VEGA ALPHA” was renamed “CHS ALPHA”, late August 2025.
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VESSEL DETAILS:
TYPE: Container
IMO NO: 9301081
8971 gt / 4920 nt / 10 746 mdwt
Delivered from Volharding Bodewes, Foxhol / Netherlands (Yard no 565), in November 2005.
Hull: Damen Okean, Mykolayiv / Ukraine (Yard no 3113)
Historic details: (TO BE UPDATED)
- 23/02/2004 – Keel laid
- 01/04/2005 – Launched as “BELUGA MAGICIAN”
- 05/11/2005 – Completed and delivered
- “SITC EXPRESS” from delivery in 11/2005 until 08/2011
- From 11/2005 – Gibraltar flag. (reg. Gibraltar)
- From 05/2011 – Liberia flag. (reg. Monrovia)
- “HR MAGICIAN” from 08/2011 until 06/2012
- “VEGA ALPHA” from 06/2012 until 12/2021
- From 06/2012 – Owned by Vega Alpha mbH. & Co. KG., Germany.
- From 07/2021 – Marshall Islands flag. (reg. Majuro)
- “SOL ALPHA” from 12/2021 until 07/2023
- “VEGA ALPHA” from 07/2023 until 08/2025
- “CHS ALPHA” from 08/2025 –
- From 08/2025 – Owned by Nautivara Shipping Ltd., Majuro / Marshall Islands.
- From 08/2025 – Managed by Apollo Easterns Shipping Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
- From 08/2025 – Owned by Nautivara Shipping Ltd., Majuro / Marshall Islands.
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ARCHIVE PHOTOS:
“VEGA ALPHA” / reg. Majuro, passing Cuxhaven / Germany, 24 June 2025, on her way from Hamburg DE to Bremerhaven DE.
@ photos – www.maritime-pics.com




