Thank you for the update. Interesting history.

- Verrazano Bridge, MSC Samia (ex-Maersk Kobe, ex-Verrazano Bridge, ex-Arabian Sea).
- Container ship. 249 m length, 23,713 t.
- Panamanian flag.
- Classification society Germanischer Lloyd.
- Built in 1973 in Kobe (Japan) by Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd.
- Owned by Mediterranean Shipping Co (Switzerland).
- Detained in 1999 in Great Yarmouth (United Kingdom), in 2001 in Anvers
(Belgium), en 2002 in Fremantle (Australia), in 2003 in Port Botany (Australia) and in
2005 in Naples (Italy).

- Sold for demolition in Bangladesh where she arrived as Sami in Yr 2007.

Glad the lead proved fruitful, Andrecas, kudos to you for tracking down the port news to confirm it.
- Jim

Thanks "Jeager" for info posted July 30. Local newspaper reported Verrazano Bridge at Rodney terminal on Friday January 8, 1982 discharging/loading containers for Japan.

Thanks info. Checking archival material local library (News of the port) for January 1982, determine exactly which vessel.

Looks to be either Verrazano Bridge, IMO 7310143, or Seven Seas Bridge, IMO 7373418, both built by Kawasaki in 1973 and 1975, respectively.