This time, there are no cruise ship passengers roaming the streets of Ponan City. On the other hand, a liner the size of a small city called at the Damen Shiprepair shipyard and still causes surprise among motorists.
The Norwegian Getaway arrived at the end of last week at the port of Brest (Finistère). There are workers on board who, given the very tight deadline, have set ten days to repair this sea giant. So much so that part of the workforce, mostly local, remains there!
Built in 2014 at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany, this giant is 325 m long and 40 m wide and weighs 146,000 tons. It has 18 decks (including a water park with multi-story slides on deck 17…) and 2014 cabins for a total capacity of 4,028 passengers.
Painting, carpeting and furniture
Sailing from Gothenburg, Sweden, the ship, which in 2017 broke the record for the largest number of cruise passengers making a commercial stop at Brest, requires serious work, sometimes delicate: in this case on its azimuth engines (systems that allow the propeller to be placed under the ship’s hull to rotate 360° to enable rapid changes of direction) with a power of 17.7 MW each, as well as three side thrusters and two ship stabilizers. Four generators will also attend inspection. As for the giant body, robots will remove part of it before painting it to freshen up the work. Inside, in addition to new painting work, Breton workers plan to change the carpets, furniture and decor.
“It’s good that our workers have jobs, but we don’t recognize this kind of economy—stops on luxury cruises—at all,” notes Sophie, a 45-year-old resident of Brest. The same reaction occurs in the commercial port. A speech we hear more and more often on the Finistère coast, influenced by these regular transitions. Over the year, citizen demonstrations against floating tourism have intensified, especially in Douarnenez and the Brest regions.
In addition, this Saturday, June 1st, there will be another cruise ship, smaller in size, but with a commercial stop. The 223-meter-long Seven Seas Splendor, flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, will arrive from Saint-Malo (Ile et Vilaine) at 9 a.m. to the commercial port’s repair berth and remain there until 7 p.m. watch.
The ship, also owned by Norwegian Cruise Line, can accommodate between 754 and 829 passengers. Departing from Southampton, England, on May 30, he took a ten-day cruise along the coasts of Western Europe. After Brest, he will travel this Sunday, June 2, to Lorient (Morbihan). It is possible that the new selection committee will accept them in their own way…
Source: Le Parisien
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