I go to great lengths to get these photographs to you. This is the walk way from the Cruise ship Terminal at Port Kelang to the Ship.Greetings from Arcadia - all at sea!
A very steady morning here on board with ship's business to attend to. As promised here is the storing report with pictures.
Port Kelang is not the easiest place for Arcadia to store in because of the change in the tide, we only had a 2 hour window were the gun port storing door would be above the quayside.
At 7am Arcadia was along side and the doors were open, first off was the garbage for recycling to make room inside for the stores to come on.
At 7am Arcadia was along side and the doors were open, first off was the garbage for recycling to make room inside for the stores to come on.

Bags of crushed glass to be recycled
Containers were on the quayside waiting for us, they had already been checked by customs and were ready to unload. There were 5 40ft Containers from the UK with many UK brand items that we needed to unload and reload onto Arcadia. Our passengers like these products and we can’t buy them locally, British tea and British Bacon and the sorts.
Daniel, Assistant F&B Mgr is checking the container numbers and seals before opening
Conny, Stores Manager and Carl, F&B Manager waiting for the stores to arrive
The first of the many pallets on there way by fork lift
1st Officer, Alex, Security Officer, Bob and Dan on the quayside, they have checked the first container was safe before entering Arcadia and now waiting to open the second.
Kelvyn, 1st Storekeeper and Olvyn, 2nd Storekeeper on their electronic pallet trucks We were unable to unload the garbage and load all the stores in the 2 hour window, the tide has now dropped so low that we are no longer able to load the stores by fork lift… We still have 3 containers to load…
Not to worry, Conny and Orla have a plan!! Don't they always...............??
We call in the assistance of a mobile crane!
Crane on the quay side - you can just about see our storing door on the side of the ship!
The remaining 3 containers of stores are then craned onto the ship a pallet at a time
Jojo, 1st Storekeeper on an electric pallet truck waiting as the 2 guys receive the stores being craned on.
The remaining 3 containers of stores are then craned onto the ship a pallet at a time
Jojo, 1st Storekeeper on an electric pallet truck waiting as the 2 guys receive the stores being craned on. And if we are not working hard enough against the challenges being thrown against us… the Black clouds are looming!!
View from the ship as it is about to rain…
View from the ship as it is about to rain… We have to stop storing shortly as the heavens open and Conny who is on the Quayside gets a soaking!!
Rain has stopped play, Orla on her pallet truck.
The rain finally stops and we finish storing the 90 tons of UK goods and some locally purchased items at about 4.30pm local time. Now we have the job of counting everything!! My thanks to Carl and his team for another great job - well done! I can't live without my Earl Grey Tea!!!!
Bye for now,
James.
'Every little helps'!

Independence Square.
Celebrating Chinese New Year.
Shopping at a local Market.
A warm and colourful welcome for our passengers and crew. This makes you feel very special indeed!



Arcadia from the local beach.
A house on stilts.
Sightseeing tours.
Unique rock formations on James Bond Island.



Freshly baked bread























