This evening Hans called me away from the computer to tell me that there was a show on TV which featured the Oceanliner the Queen Mary 2 while in drydock in my hometown Hamburg, Germany. I listened with great interest and took some pictures of what was showing on TV..later I googled the story and copied here for you to read.
-- Queen Mary 2 Comes Into Port
Every year, millions of Germans party on the shores of Hamburg in a celebration that rivals Oktoberfest. The party is held to celebrate the 817th birthday of the port of Hamburg. This year, there was a special surprise guest in port: the Queen Mary 2, one of the biggest and most luxurious cruise ships in the world. She arrived in the only port in the world that could handle some very delicate repairs to her engines. Hamburg port is one of the only places in the world that can fit the massive ship - a vessel that’s too wide to fit through the Panama Canal. Positioning the Queen Mary 2 into the dry dock is a dramatic, precision manoeuver, with just inches between her hull and the dry dock below.
World’s Most Automated Port
Hamburg is one of the busiest sea hubs in the world, with ships lining up to off-load their cargo. But at the bustling Hamburg port, it appears that something is missing… the port workers. Here it takes only one man to unload a ship with 9,000 containers the size of trucks. His “co-workers” are all robots in this futuristic automated port where intelligent machines rule.--
It was further explained in the report that if a human enters this yard an alarm will sound.
That info just is fabulous, bruni! Love the collage .. what a grand ship! And to think that there are only a few inches to fit that ship into at the dock (and the one man to unload the ship!) I am truly amazed!