Montevideo, UY
On Thursday, March 24th KMA sent me an e-mail announcing to me that
the ship will be in Montevideo on March 31st and that an e-mail will
inform me the day before the time of loading. The told time was at 4
p.m. on March 31st. I was at the port around 3 p.m., Socorro
expected me for the formalities to give the certificate of temporary
admission of my truck as well as my passport and the notebook of
yellow fever vaccination that the captain will keep up to Antwerp.
My truck remained at quay in front of Grande Buenos Aires until
23:00. I put it on board to install it in the immense car park.
I was the only passenger!
M/V Grande Buenos Aires
On Saturday, April 1st Grande Buenos Aires installed and left the
Montevideo port at 10:00. I visited Montevideo on July 8th, 2016.
Here
The long way towards Antwerp started to finish on an unknown date
around May 10th. Good voyage.
Departure, click the pic for opening the gallery
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Paranagua
M/V Grande Buenos Aires arrived on Monday, April 3rd around 19:30 at
Paranagua, port of Curitiba. The setting at quay in a crenel between
two container ships is carried out by two tug boats pushing it in
the crenel. This very delicate operation takes a certain time. The
view of the port from the top of boat is impressive; the lighting of
the warehouse of the containers, the prospect for the cranes, the
noria of the trucks transporting of the containers then the lowering
of the right back door of the boat is a surrealist spectacle. The
loading of boat was carried out all the night to leave the following
day around 10:00.
Paranagua, click the pic for opening the gallery
Santos
M/V G.B.A entered, on Tuesday, April 4 around 21:05, the bay of
Santos, port of Sao Paulo, second city of Brazil. The setting at
quay followed the same procedure as in Paranagua. The view of the
wearing of night was fairy-like. The loading of the boat was very
long a large number of containers then new trucks manufactured at
Sao Paulo, Scania and Mercedes-Benz as well as machines of building
sites CAT, Caterpillar.
Santos, click the pic for opening the gallery
Rio de Janeiro
M/V G.B.A surfed in the splendid bay of Rio de Janeiro passing at
the bottom of Pao de Açucar as well as the majestic statue of Cristo
Redentor. I had visited the city on June 14th, 2016,
here.
The setting at quay at the bottom of Ponte President Costa e Silva was
carried out on April 6th around 7:55. The loading was rather fast because
there were few containers. But the departure was only the following
day around 16:00.
Rio de Janeiro, click the pic for opening the gallery
Visit of M/V Grande Buenos Aires
Master bridge, click on the pic for opening the gallery
Engines, click on the pic for opening the gallery
The GPS stopovers
from Rio de Janeiro to Dakar
from 2017/04/06 to 2017/04/13
Dakar
M/V GBA arrived at Dakar on April 14th around 7:50 am for the
setting at quay. Then it was a ballet of containers on the storage
platform. Heat was already intense; I spent most of the day in my
air-conditioned cabin. The following day, the lifting of the back
door, drawbridge, was carried out around 17:00 during 15 minutes;
then lifting of the mooring ropes around 17:40 after the pilot's
rise on board. Finally the exit of the port was effective at 18:00.
Dakar, click the pic for opening the gallery
Banjul
M/V GBA arrived on April 16th around 1:00 am at Banjul, Gambia, that
is to say approximately 7:00 after having left Dakar. I attended the
unloading of the hold as from 5:00 am; it still night. Unloading
then the loading lasted until April 17th around 5:00 am. The
starting procedure started around 10:30 and the exit of the port was
effective around 11:00. The payment of a visa is obligatory even
without leaving the boat; the price of 75€ is perceived by BOLLORÉ,
Transport & Logistics, French company!
Banjul, click the pic for opening the gallery
The GPS stopovers
from Dakar to Antwerp
du 2017/04/14 au 2017/05/02
Pas-de-Calais, Strait of Dover
On Monday, April 24th M/V GBA crossed the Pas-de-Calais, Strait of
Dover, broad of about thirty kilometers while skirting the French
coasts. Many boats surfed English Chanel, La Manche, on the rails of
Ushant which ensures building safety. I noted that with the view of
the French coasts connection GSM was of good quality but of course
no Internet.
Strait of Dover, Pas-de-Calais, click the pic for opening the gallery
Tilbury
Then around 16:00 M/V GBA dropped anchor some share in the estuary
of the Thames during 24:00 expecting the authorization to go to quay
in Tilbury on April 25th around 21:00. Unloading started around
21:30 until the following day 13:00.
Tilbury-1, click the pic for opening the gallery
On Wednesday, April 26th the boat did not move towards the
downstream of the river but continued upstream during approximately
1 kilometer to stay around 14:30 at quay under immense cranes to
discharge the containers front stored before until 23:00. The port
of Tilbury does not have a rational organization a quay for
unloading by the right back drawbridge then another quay for front
storage!
Tilbury-2, click the pic for opening the gallery
Hamburg
The setting at quay of M/V GBA began on Friday, April 28th around
7:30 with a lowering of the drawbridge around 8:00 for unloading by
the back door. Around 11:00 I left the boat to go by taxi to a ATM
for withdrawing Euros with my second credit card in the term on
April 30th! I was back for the lunch.
The ship left Hamburg on Saturdays around 16:00 towards the mouth of
the Elba river.
Hamburg, click the pic for opening the gallery
Along the Elba river, click the pic for opening the gallery
Parking lot
But on Sunday, April 30th M/V GBA stopped around 15:00 to station
near the coasts on a carpark where there were already a large number
of boats.
Antwerp
On Wednesday morning the May 3rd M/V GBA arrived around 11:00 in the
hopper of entry at the port of Antwerp. It stationed there to leave
there around 12:00. It finished its setting at quay at 13:00. Around
14:00 a member of the crew came to seek me to go by taxi to
immigration. We left there around 17:00. I returned to the boat to
leave my vehicle wedged between two files of trucks of which one of
them did not start. He was drawn by a machine from handling all
brakes applied on 20 meters. Finally I left the port of Antwerp
around 18:00! The voyage from Montevideo to Antwerp
was finished after 33 days at sea.
Antwerp, click the pic for opening the gallery
Border crossing
I left M/V Grande Buenos Aires by Grimaldi on Wednesday May 3rd at Antwerp.
Look at the border crossing,
here
