Topic: Ship Spotters Topic (Read 581341 times)

Nathan|C · « **Reply #200 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:45:27 »

Quote from: Ballast on July 05, 2010, 11:40:59

Stena Hollandica!

What a brilliant picture! Right place at the right time MJ

The Ferry Man · « **Reply #201 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:46:34 »

Some great pics Ballast

Ballast · « **Reply #202 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:47:30 »

Thanks guys!

IRI5HJ4CK · « **Reply #203 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:57:09 »

Great pic MJ!!

(http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq19lXi)

Sat in the Stena Office now...

TNeves · « **Reply #204 on:** July 05, 2010, 12:33:12 »

Some pictures here in Aveiro's Port - Portugal:

The portuguese ship "Portalegre", from Naveiro Lines:

Erria Dorthe, a quimical tanker:

Ballast · « **Reply #205 on:** July 06, 2010, 11:25:32 »

Quote from: Nathan|C on July 05, 2010, 11:45:27

What a brilliant picture! Right place at the right time MJ

Ralphy · « **Reply #206 on:** July 06, 2010, 11:34:49 »

hehe dont you just love irony

The Ferry Man · « **Reply #207 on:** July 06, 2010, 11:35:51 »

Its amazing how often it happens too... $:-\$

IRI5HJ4CK · « **Reply #208 on:** July 06, 2010, 12:27:25 »

Loads of P&O trailers are here at Fleetwood

Denis · « **Reply #209 on:** July 06, 2010, 13:17:04 »

Hi guys

,

here are a few pics I took while aboard a tug (named Belle-ile) in Saint Nazaire (France).

two first while pushing the tanker Athenian Victory along the peer,
the last one while towing the LNG Port Harcourt

(more tug pics on my website :
http://www.declik.org/#album=7
http://www.declik.org/#album=8
http://www.declik.org/#album=6 )

saltydog · « **Reply #210 on:** July 07, 2010, 15:58:39 »

I read in the news a while ago that there is a world-wide shortage of sea containers..
Perhaps they borrow them from each other..

VirtualSkipper · « **Reply #211 on:** July 08, 2010, 21:05:35 »

Is anyone planning to see the MS Insignia next tuesday?

oceandream · « **Reply #212 on:** July 08, 2010, 22:48:29 »

ask captain mitch..
he would want too see her

Ballast · « **Reply #213 on:** July 08, 2010, 23:32:42 »

Botlek bridge in the port of Rotterdam this evening

Capt. Jim · « **Reply #214 on:** July 10, 2010, 15:35:17 »

And then i must wait for the Spijkenisse bridge again

clanky · « **Reply #215 on:** July 11, 2010, 22:30:06 »

Quote from: Ballast on July 08, 2010, 23:32:42

Botlek bridge in the port of Rotterdam this evening

Ballast, you appear to have gotten lost!

You won't find a coffee machine on the fo'c'sle, you will be in the engine room next! :p

clanky · « **Reply #216 on:** July 11, 2010, 22:36:21 »

Quote from: Ralphy on July 06, 2010, 11:34:49

hehe dont you just love irony

Quote from: Nathan|C on July 06, 2010, 15:16:51

Both the Stena Hollandica in herself and the fact she is carrying P&O trailers means P&O is at rock bottom

Some nice pics of the Stena Transporter (Now in Italy as the Strada Corsa) taken from the Pride of Rotterdam. Look at the containers.... (In the second picture you can see the old Stena Hollandica in the same spot as MJ's picture was taken)

I saw more P&O containers on the Stena ships than on POR!!!

There is nothing unusual in this, P&O as a transport company and P&O as a shipping company are two separate outfits, obviously where possible they will put P&O trailers on a P&O ship, but in the end they just put them wherever they need to, to get them where they have to be.

If you look at all of the big container ship companies, they all carry each others containers all the time (although I was once on an Andrew Weir ship where the chief officer spent ages arranging all of the Andrew Weir containers along the outboard sides!)