Cat | Esp | Eng
Pere Renom

“We gave you no fixed place, no form of your own, nor any assigned task, O Adam, so that by your own choice you might possess the place, the image, and the role you desire; neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal did we make you, but free to shape yourself in the form you prefer, as your own maker and sculptor.”

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Cruisers, floating cities

published on 3.03.2015

We visit  the shipyard of Palermo to see how a ship 300 meters in length is cut in half, is lengthen with a new section of 24 meters, and again is welded to seamlessly navigate. A cruise ship with 5,000 people on board is a veritable floating city. We attended the docking maneuver in the port of Barcelona MSC Splendida and explain the equipment and supply logistics. Involved Andrea Angelotti, Marine Operations Manager of MSC Cruises, Tomás Navarro, Pilot Corporation, Port of Barcelona, Ferdinando Ponti, captain of the MSC Splendida, and Roberto Paterno, F&B Manager of the MSC Splendida.

Quèquicom... Read more posts.