Short Sea Shipping in the EU

[Kennebec_Captain]

This does not make any sense, there was no confusion, perhaps you did not read the post.

@ombugge

because there is obviously some confusion about what constitutes Container Feeder ships and even Short Sea Shipping.

This is the post that you responded to:

@DamnYankee

US manning requirements, not European ones. Those feeders run with a skeleton crew, often spend less than 5 hours on a dock, and hit ports very close together with tons of river, canal, and lock evolutions.

Every time I look up the dock in Germany and see one with 5 degrees of list while being loaded I imagine that everyone onboard is trying to steal a couple hours of sleep versus tending to ballast or the mooring lines. I just don’t see how they can remain STCW rest hour compliant and generally try to stay far away from any feeder I encounter.

No claim that feeders are European only.

This was your response:

@ombugge

Container feeders are not something European, they are in service world wide and come in all sizes, from very small vessels for inshore and river routes, to fairly large ones

Nobody has made the claim that feeders are only in Europe which is what you are evidently trying to refute.