That's what happens when you fit a 320 amp forward only Chinese ESC...
Quite agree with you Dave. We have visited Venice on a smaller cruise ship in the past and you do get a great view from on deck but routeing these behemoths along the waterfront like that is really not sustainable. I gather the St Mark's Square area now has turnstiles to give access.
It's not just Venice though, these huge ships, often carrying over 4,000 passengers, can totally swamp local facilities, especially if you get three or four of them in port at once. They don't do the local economy much good either as most passengers just buy a coffee in a cafe as their food is already paid for aboard the ship.
Cruise companies don't like tender ports as it takes too long to get the pleasure seeking hordes off and back on the ship plus a lot of them are not really agile enough to cope with the process and can get hurt.
In the case of Venice, maybe they should build a separate cruise terminal somewhere out in the lagoon and use local waterbuses to transfer to the city itself. And, of course also limit the number of ships that can call simultaneously as they have done at Dubrovnik and I think Santorini.
Colin
