We were moored in a quiet area across from a large fenced warehouse in Lille a while ago. A large commercial barge arrived and quickly moored up. During the mooring a crew member was raising the crane and a section of the deck opened on hydraulics. By the time the barge had come to rest the crane was fully up and a very smart Mercedes arrived on the quayside. Instantly the car was attached to the crane, the car lifted and lowered into the hold. The mooring rope was detached and the barge moved off whilst the crane was being lowered and the hold hatch closed. The whole process took barely a couple of minutes. Car nicely concealed in small section of a 100 metre plus long barge carrying bulk cargo moving seamlessly across borders in Europe.
The barge in question
Draw your own conclusion to this event. It did seem very strange.
1 comment:
Oh la la.
Makes you wonder what's in every hold!
We know what you've got in yours....
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