Do we have to tender?

When customers ask about ports one of the number of question I get asked is 'Do we have to tender in that port?'

Well the simple answer is that in a lot of ports the harbour is too shallow and the ships can't dock so the choice is simple either you tender or you stay on ship! I know that sometimes even that fails if the weather is too bad, but this is the exception not the rule.

The picture above is from Cunard's Queen Victoria in Santorini, a port of call where all the ships have to tender.

But in some ports there maybe an alternative.

Well, what about the SeaWalk, a motorised pier which gives access to a ship in a port that it may normally have to tender in.

The first one of these has just become operational in Skjolden Norway a port where the ships may normally tender.

I can't image this would work in every port, but it could make some of those short tender journey's a thing of the past.

Look forward to seeing more of these.