07-02-2020, 08:02 AM | #1 |
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Any sailors aboard?
Was left wondering recently about the processes of crew getting on and off ships in the modern era - especially as it applies to moving characters across large water obstacles.
When a merchantman docks, do immigration/border control come aboard and rummage through the crew or do they only process those going ashore? Do merchant crews even go ashore routinely anymore, given that a lot of these Conex facilities and bulk loading docks are not close to anything in particular? How do such ships victual? Does a ship come out to them or what? Do old fashioned general cargo and reefer ships operate anymore or is it all conex now? |
07-02-2020, 12:17 PM | #2 | |
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: near London, UK
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Resupply is usually a very boring-looking catering delivery van. Taxis will come and take the crew to drinking and whoring establishments, and deliver them back later if they aren't paying for hotels ashore. (There are always drinking and whoring establishments within a taxi-ride of a large port.) Conex is primarily a US term (strictly it refers to the smaller Vietnam War-era containers rather than the modern ISO-standard ones); for the rest of the Anglophone world it's "container" or if you're in the trade sometimes TEU or FEU (twenty-foot / forty-foot equivalent unit). There may be a few refrigerated transports left, but you're much more likely to ship a refrigerated container (with power hookups) aboard a normal container ship. There's basically no breakbulk cargo any more. You get some specialised tankers, but anything that can go in a container does.
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07-02-2020, 02:40 PM | #3 | |
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07-03-2020, 03:02 AM | #4 |
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Re: Any sailors aboard?
I did see some article about current real-world problems in the shipping industry from Covid-19 because crews can't take shore leave or be flown home at end of a tour.
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07-03-2020, 04:29 AM | #5 | |
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Quite a number of palletized loads go by river in Alaska, especially up the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. (for about 6 months of the year, the Yukon and Kuskokwim are navigable. You can get most of the way to Fairbanks) A number of small ports along the southcentral Alaska coastline also get serviced by breakbulk shipping. Some are islands, others in non-road-accessible mainland areas. I've seen loads and unloads, but never from an onboard perspective. |
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07-03-2020, 04:46 AM | #6 | |
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Location: Luxembourg
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Container : 122 Mtonnes Bulk (liquid) : 73 Mtonnes Bulk (solid) : 12 Mtonnes roll-on/roll-off : 5 Mtonnes (of which 3.9 vehicles) Various : 10 Mtonnes So, about 5% of breakbulk (various and non-vehicular ro-ro) by Tons Last edited by Celjabba; 07-03-2020 at 12:48 PM. |
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07-03-2020, 07:35 AM | #7 | ||
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Thanks all, that sounds useful … and that you're not going to get a tramp steamer plot anywhere familiar in the modern era.
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07-03-2020, 07:43 AM | #8 |
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Luxembourg
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You amy want to search for "Freighter Cruise" travel blogs, writers and other artist that spend some time as passenger on a freighter.
I know a couple, but they wrote about it in French. However, I am sure it also exist in English. |
07-03-2020, 12:41 PM | #9 | |
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And maybe you should take a look at the feeders.
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