MSC Geneva, Freeport to Lima via the Panama Canal | June, July 2013

"Panamax" container ship, built 2006

 

Click HERE for a video of anchor drop

 

Length 902', beam 105', draft 30', can carry 4,865 units

 

 

 

5 German officers,18 Filipino crewmen, and passenger 24

 

 

My cabin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything you sit on, put on, type on, clip on, get on, look on, - EVERYTHING, unless specifically marked Made in USA - has been in a container like these, and on a ship like this one. Flowers and highly perishables are air shipped. All else goes in the box.

 

 

 

Deck plates, 28 tons each, stacked on dock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alessia, Geneva's twin-sister ship

Spare piston liner brought aboard

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crew drill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Typical meal, nothing fancy

 

 

The captain offers a birthday toast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extra crew aboard to assist in locks

 

 

 

 

Panama City

 

Crossing the equator

 

Yes, I got to drive the ship.

 

 

 

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