Crossing the Pacific on the slow Hyundai from China
Mar 29, 2016, 6:39 pm
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Ahh..some things about travel never seem to change. Plane or ship, same result once you get there.
Apr 1, 2016, 4:32 am
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Amazing trip report. Reminds me of an interview I listened to on NPR a few years ago. Here is a link:
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/14/211981...-and-feeds-you
Hope I can do something similar one day. A question to the OP though. What happens to the trash that the ship discharges at Long Beach? Is it sent to a landfill, incinerated or does the ship have to take the trash back to it's port of origin?
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/14/211981...-and-feeds-you
Hope I can do something similar one day. A question to the OP though. What happens to the trash that the ship discharges at Long Beach? Is it sent to a landfill, incinerated or does the ship have to take the trash back to it's port of origin?
Apr 1, 2016, 3:20 pm
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A writer and traveler after my own heart! This looks like a great way to cross the Pacific - one that I intend to look into some day. Thanks for a First Class write-up, YVR ^^
Apr 4, 2016, 5:48 pm
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CMA CGM has undertaken to be "green" so discharges nothing at sea except food waste that is ground into small bits first per international maritime protocols (and heavy fuel and diesel fumes). Plastic bottles and metal cans are also collected for recycling. Sadly not paper waste.
Garbage volume produced is very small. I did see a flat-bed pickup truck by the ship at Long Beach with some bins on it to carry waste away. I would not hesitate to state that it may have been the garbage from more than one ship.
Apr 4, 2016, 10:02 pm
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There's nothing anti-Semetic about saying something unflattering about Israel as a political entity -- or, at least, there shouldn't be. A race or religion is not the same as the politics or political decision of a country, and it is not anti-Muslim to say that one does not want to visit Syria either.
I'm Jewish and I don't want to visit Israel now either -- it's a war zone, and that's something I want to stay away from. It doesn't make me anti-Semitic to want to avoid entering an area that has virtually been at war for decades.
I'm Jewish and I don't want to visit Israel now either -- it's a war zone, and that's something I want to stay away from. It doesn't make me anti-Semitic to want to avoid entering an area that has virtually been at war for decades.
Everyone needs to be respectful of others or the so called war of decades in the ME will become a world wide war.
Apr 23, 2016, 5:42 pm
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Didn't really compare it at the time but the Libra is about the same in size compared to a RCCI Oasis-class cruise ship.
364 m vs 362 m in length
45.6 m vs 47m beam at waterline
Displaces 31,000 more tons/tonnes mainly due to deeper draft.
And the Libra is a mere mid-sized container ship these days....
Didn't really compare it at the time but the Libra is about the same in size compared to a RCCI Oasis-class cruise ship.
364 m vs 362 m in length
45.6 m vs 47m beam at waterline
Displaces 31,000 more tons/tonnes mainly due to deeper draft.
And the Libra is a mere mid-sized container ship these days....
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