Earlier in the Lancang - Mekong River, unknown to live boring, boring, again and again, fear of shipping live crew, suddenly became the focus of national media attention. Evening News reporter recently arrived in Xishuangbanna off tired two ports, set foot on a cargo ship in this outage, get to know a lot of the crew, and makes their lives feel a lot of bits and pieces.
The crew usually eight or nine every morning to eat breakfast around 5:30 pm to eat dinner at night generally do not eat supper. According to reports, the annual run for the ship's crew, at noon will not feel hungry. In the past need firewood for cooking on board, but now have changed electricity and gas, and cook on board a lot of convenience.
christian louboutins zapatillas mbt Evening News reporter on board saw the kitchen cooker, rice cooker and gas stove with other tableware and kitchenware. Spices also came complete. According to the ship's cook, these are the countries on the pier in the waterway to buy, go buy one terminal will be fresh vegetables and meat, eggs reserves of the ship is also equipped with a refrigerator, the food can be refrigerated.
Both water and electricity with a generator on each vessel
Ship in the process of moving, generally relying on own generators to meet their daily needs. The crew's drinking water is in the country to buy bottled water on the pier; As for laundry, washing vegetables for domestic water, is taken directly from the river up with, so each boat will be equipped with a water storage tank sizes, next to the also connected to the solar water heater. Crew said that the past is to use cold water bath, in 2078 before starting to spend a solar hot water, much more convenient.
Boat trip voyage to run at least a week
"Dragons 6" the captain told the Evening News reporter Luo Xiaoqiang, the crew ran back and forth cargo trip at least a week. Xishuangbanna off tired from our pier to pier Chiang Saen in Thailand, a total of 270 km of the voyage, when sailing out of the 11 hours to get to Chiang Saen; returning is against the current, hurry up to 24 hours, slowly get 28 ~ 30 hours. But the road had to unload at the pier, loading, it is very time consuming.
Accommodation like the tiny dormitory
Evening News reporter embarked on several consecutive boats, cargo ships that stay on are basically the same pattern. The deck behind the engine room is the kitchen, dining room and bathroom. Kitchen is very narrow, narrow; the kitchen door is the place to eat, only stood a small square table; the toilet in the cabin side, about 1 square meter of two small rooms, pit-type.
Down the iron stairs from the deck to board the second floor deck, where the area is only about 10 square meters, are the crew of the multi-function small balcony. The above is not only possessor of flowers, basking in the clothes, but also a detour to solar water heaters, washing machines and receive TV signals, "lid" and so on. Balcony is the crew after living room, an area about 17 square meters, which stood the TV and DVD and other entertainment facilities, some better conditions on board, even with audio, amplifier, and a sofa and coffee table.
Entertainment from the living room and then further away, more than one person is a wide channel, the channel left and right about 6 to 8 sleeping rooms, quadruple rooms from one human to have. Room layout is very compact, like tiny dormitory. Quadruple into bunk beds, generally live in the lower, upper release point debris bed width of 60 cm, about 1.8 meters, the room are hung with curtains, the crew will be arranged according to their preferences easy.
From the channel to go in the end and then a few steps, is the captain and first mate's cabin, which is a rectangular room, in front of a large transparent side windows, steering wheel center, accelerator right hand side, two key drivers component side, each placed a high stool. Crew are introduced, usually the captain sitting right next to accelerator control speed, and adjust the rudder command center's first mate.
Some of the cockpit is also equipped with telephone, dial the international and domestic long distance. Another more useful communication device is a high frequency machine dialogue, on the rudder side.
Higher wages wages higher tonnage of ship
The higher the tonnage of the ship, crew wages higher. A tonnage of one hundred tons or so of the ship, crew ordinary monthly salary of 2,000 yuan, the captain, first mate, chief engineer, who pay to be higher, in addition to the commission; the cook's salary from 1,000 yuan to 1800 yuan range, is determined depending on the tonnage of ships.
Chinese crew are basically the only pier in the closed banks tired - tired Mengla off to open a savings account of rural credit cooperatives. This normally busy day, the volume of business can reach more than 400 pen.
The credit union loan officer surnamed Gong told the Evening News reporter, crew transfer to the home every month, a few hundred dollars to a thousand dollars, vessels in distress, "Warburg number" of the owner and captain, who, on the In this credit in the opening three accounts.
