[IMG_4833] Cruise ship Carnival Vista loaded on BOKA Vanguard of Bos & Kalis. Last Saturday, July 13, the 300-meter-long “Carnival Vista” cruise ship was loaded on the heavy load carrier BOKA Vanguard of Dutch Bos & Kalis and then transported to the Grand Bahama Shipyard in Freeport in the Bahama…

The title is so misleading. How using the semi submersible as a dry dock salvage. I believe I have seen semi submersible used for thruster repair on drill rig. This is impressive just on the size of both vessels.

You are right, HLVs and semi-submersible barges have been used to dry dock both ships and rigs before. Usually you have to remove at least two thrusters from MODUs before loading them on semi-submersible HLVs. The thrusters are not retractable and very few HLVs are able to submerge enough to float …

Yes, the thread title is largely misleading; there never was ‘salvage’. It could be titled ‘…dry-docked on BOKO Vanguard’ The big floating dry-dock at Freeport is still not working, since a dock’s crane fell on a cruise-ship earlier this year. The Carnival Vista finished her last cruise at Galvesto…

The transport of Costa Concordia on Dockwise Vanguard was planned but never executed: https://gcaptain.com/dockwise-vanguard-to-lift-costa-concordia-from-giglio/ The wreck was eventually towed, floating on the sponsons, to Genova for dismantling: [image] Costa Concordia heads for scrapy…

[image] ombugge: The transport of Costa Concordia on Dockwise Vanguard was planned but never executed: Yes, I did not clearly write that the project stayed project. I don’t now how far the project Vanguard was pushed, or if it had only to put the Italians under pressure to stop the endless w…

Off Freeport, ‘Boka Vanguard’ released the ‘Carnival Vista’ into the sea again. Vista, after some tests and a return to Freeport, is now underway to her homeport Galveston TX. They did not need all the time reserved for the works. Therefore, on July 23, Carnival Vista will leave Galveston for an …

Join the merchant navy and see the world. As a crew member, having to make those boring one week roundtrips all the time, I suppose that I soon would become a mental case…

Both major US cruise lines, Carnival and Royal Caribbean, have minority interests in ‘Grand Bahama Shipyard Ltd’ at Freeport. After discharging ‘Carnival Vista’, ten days ago, ‘Boka Vanguard’ is still at anchor off Freeport. Maybe to let the crew have some holydays…? More probably, Vanguard was bo…

I doubt that crew rest is the reason. They will normally not steam off to somewhere without a confirmed assignment. But the Americas are usually an offloading area, so they would likely be re-positioning for better prospects somewhere else. She MAY be on a retainer for a future cruise ship docking…

The Bos & Kalis website does not mention anything about future plans. I think that they are waiting for orders or that they expect that a new job in that area will turn up soon. Enough azipods around…

Cruise ship Carnival Vista loaded on BOKA Vanguard

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Cruise ship Carnival Vista loaded on BOKA Vanguard

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