port charges who eats fee is ship is half full?

i was thinking ship loses on this one?

Port charges may be based on a per guest charge.

Port charges may be based on a per guest charge.

Or a combination of factors. The port may charge by the length of the ship when
computing dock space plus the local immigration/customs people may charge per
person. Need a tug boat? That may be by the vessel's gross tonnage or perhaps
on an hourly basis. A port-supplied pilot may be a flat fee.

I once read that ships home porting at the Port of Los Angeles paid fees to 17
different entities including the Coastal Commission and the LA County Air
Quality District. For the latter they were charged per ton of CO the ship
generated while in the port.

I think I've read that the trasit charge for the Panama Canal is like $200,000.

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I think I've read that the trasit charge for the Panama Canal is like
$200,000.

That's a lot of quarters. There must be crew members with wheelbarrows
full of coins dumping them in the plastic basket until the green light
that says "THAN YOU" goes on.

Maybe now they have one of those electronic passes attached to the visor
on the windshield of the bridge.

On Tue, 4 May 2004 15:45:10 -0700, (steve) wrote:

i was thinking ship loses on this one?

About half the port charges are per ton, about half are per passenger.

So if a 100,000 ton ship has 2,000 passengers it might pay $40,000 and
figure on a port charge of $20 per passenger. If it is half full at
1,000 passengers, it would "eat" $10,000 in unreimbursed charges.

Where the cruiseline really gets nailed on poorly-booked cruises are
fixed operating costs (fuel, depreciation, salaries -- actually
per-ton wharfage would be an item in this category) and loss of
discretionary passenger spending (bingo, excursions, drinks, etc.)

Mason Barge

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
-- Abraham Lincoln

I've never been on a poorly booked ship. In fact, I think most of the
ships I've been on have been at capacity. The last cruise I was on
(Rhapsody out of Galveston) was sold out. I asked the gal at the
check in area what the census percentage was and she said that the
ship had been sold out since they started sailing out of Galveston
over a year earlier.

On Thu, 06 May 2004 11:11:50 -0400, Mason Barge
wrote:

Where the cruiseline really gets nailed on poorly-booked cruises are
fixed operating costs (fuel, depreciation, salaries -- actually
per-ton wharfage would be an item in this category) and loss of
discretionary passenger spending (bingo, excursions, drinks, etc.)

Crescent wrote:

I've never been on a poorly booked ship.

I don't know about that. All libraries at sea are NOT created equal.