Royal Princess - Barge Up Against Her

[suntan]

The Royal Princess is in Fort Lauderdale today and when you check her on the Port Everglades webcam you can see a barge is up against her. I saw this yesterday against another cruise ship. Does anyone know what services these barges provide?

[chrysalis]

fuel

[reelfish]

Fuel for the ship. Bunker barge.

[Woobstr112G]

Gassing up for the next cruise.....:):):)

 

Bob

[paul929207]

The gas station comes to the ship rather than the other way around.

[pablo222]

The gas station comes to the ship rather than the other way around.

 

Usually not in Ft. Lauderdale. There is underground piping

from the tank farm right to the berths.

 

All they do is drag around a trailer mounted pump.

[Colo Cruiser]

Could be a sludge off load too.

[suntan]

Thank you for your responses. You learn something new every days, makes it worth getting up in the morning. :)

[scott4020]

Usually not in Ft. Lauderdale. There is underground piping

from the tank farm right to the berths.

 

All they do is drag around a trailer mounted pump.

 

There's has been some construction around pier 2 so the regular system might be down.

[WazAnOkie]

Saw this fuel barge from our balcony on the Conquest in New Orleans in October.

 

 

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[sminfiddle]

Thank you for your responses. You learn something new every days, makes it worth getting up in the morning. :)

 

Thanks for asking!:D

I enjoy learning from the responses too.

 

 

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[Ship's Wake]

Could be a sludge off load too.

 

 

 

[EdmPair]

We took on fuel oil in St Petersburg for HOURS on the Grand Princess. They also repeat the 'no smoking warnings' multiple times before and during. And my vague memory says they closed the promenade on that side during it too but not sure. I would have thought with the size of pipes it would go faster than it seemed.