In all other ports, I didn’t see that the crane drivers had a break together. Maybe in Southampton it was only, because they knew that they will have more time now, because of a delay of more than 12 hours additional, but both at last evening and this morning all cranes stood still for a while at the same time. I also wondered when I saw that they didn’t use all available cranes. But for sure I will not be the one who sees things that could be done better that others, who are responsible, wouldn’t know. Although there are some things one the ship that could be done better for sure. I sit in my room with two jackets and 3 t-shirts and still have cold hands, because the room is cooled down too
much and I cannot regulate it. The temperature of all fridges is much too low. My bicycle is in a big empty room were the light is burning 24h all the time and that is not the only room where this is the case. And the food waste is terrible. This is not only a matter of organisation it also depends on each person. For example, on the first day we passengers had agreed that we don’t need bread at lunch and the messman didn’t bring bread the next days until once a passenger asked where the bread is. The messman explained that we had told that we wouldn’t need it, but the passenger now wanted bread. And since that day we get bread again at lunch and since that day no one took any bread and since that day for each lunch a complete baguette has been cut, put in the basket and thrown away when it became hard and dry.
In some cases you will hear that compared to the big consumption of energy this small changes are not relevant. It might be only a thousandth, but I want to bring two examples:
If a package of milk is empty, I usually fold and squeeze it and pour out the last drops and get a mild smile of some people watching that, because I maybe safe a thousandth of the milk. But compared to those who don’t do that I could through away every thousands package of milk completely because I had saved the milk before. And now I wouldn’t earn a mild smile. Or: if there is a big room with thousand lamps some people would not switch of the one lamp they don’t need any more because it is makes no difference compared to the other burning 999 lamps. But if there are 1000 rooms with one lamp in each, they would switch it off when they leave their room, because it makes a difference of 100% if the light is on or off, regardless of all 999 other lamps in the other rooms. Hm, at least when they must pay for the current, maybe.
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