Friday, June 30, 2017 - 09:36 by ce-press
On June 14 2017, 710-passenger Adonia docked at Portland Port having sailed from Miami under the Fathom brand. During her stay, she was returned to her original P&O Cruises branding before setting sail for Southampton to start its first P&O Cruise since 2016.
Tom Driscoll, onboard product delivery director Carnival UK, commented “As Adonia made her way back to Southampton, we docked in Portland Port, a new port for her and P&O Cruises, to conduct her rebranding work to ensure she was ready for her first cruise on June 16 to Bordeaux, Honfleur and Guernsey. The facilities at the port are fantastic and the team there worked very hard to ensure we had a seamless operation over our two-day call.”
Two local contractors, Quest Marine Ltd and Paisley Plant Hire, supported the operation throughout, helping to complete the works on time.
Ian McQuade, general manager commercial Portland Port, added: “We were delighted to welcome the Adonia, she is the first Carnival UK ship to visit Portland Port. We hope this won’t be the last P&O ship to call at Portland and we look forward to working with them in the future.”
Portland Port has over 2,000m of alongside berths and 11.6m depth of water at the deepest alongside berth. Berthing for vessels of 340m is possible, subject to harbour master's approval. A width of 210m and depth of over 12.6m at the entrance of the harbour mean that there are few vessel beam, lock, or air draught restrictions.
