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.
