Thursday, June 25, 1998 - Arrived in Shanghai. Weather rainy.
Friday, June 26, 1998 - Weather rainy. Vessels not yet berthed. Visited terminal warehouse in Pier 15. Got rice samples.
Saturday, June 27, 1998 - O Un Chong Nyon Ho already berthed. Weather rainy. No loading.
Sunday, June 28, 1998
- Weather rainy in the morning but cleared in the afternoon.
Waited for
notice of possible loading.
Monday, June 29, 1998
- O Un Chong Nyon Ho partly loaded when we climbed aboard.
Audience with chief mate. Took pictures of loading. Weather turned rainy
shortly, so they closed the hatch and we retreated to the terminal warehouse.
Got sack samples.
Waited for the rain to stop, but it did not.
Tuesday, June 30, 1998 - Beautiful sunny day for loading! O Un Chong Nyon Ho expects to finish loading . Du Man Gang cannot berth, and will be loaded at anchorage. Waited for notice to board Du Man Gang at anchorage.
Wednesday, July 1, 1998 - Not allowed to board Du Man Gang at anchorage. Fumigation set for O Un Chong Nyon Ho. No witnesses allowed also. Rice samples from Du Man Gang sent at hotel.
Thursday, July 2, 1998 - Left Shanghai for Beijing together with the Vietnamese from Vina Food.
Tuesday, July 7, 1998
- Left Beijing for the Philippines,
transit in Hongkong.
Some Comments on the trip:
1. In the briefing, we were told to voice out our observations only to the surveyor. But we did not get to meet the surveyor at all!
2. The initial reaction when we saw the sample, even from the Vietnamese, was that it didn’t look like long grain rice, and that it looked like it was more than 25% broken.
3. The loading efficiency was impressive! The photographs clearly show this.
4. The port and the vessel were very clean. I put on immaculate white socks and wore them with open sandals, and didn’t even get dust on them!
5. The hosts were very hospitable.
from the terminal warehouse
to the palletized mounds
and on to loading nets on trailers
to be driven to the vessel
to be hoisted by cranes
over to the vessel
and lowered to the hatch
to neat piles on hatch
