We are scheduled for a full transit of the Panama Cannal tomorow. Each ship of the 146,000 that transit each year is allocated a time to be standung by to enter the locks so exact time is of the essence. Miss your time slot and you may literaly have to wait days for a new one! Missing the time is not an option for a cruise ship so we will be at sea all today passing along the coast of Panama so that we can be in place on time tomorow. All being well we shall pick up the pilot at 0500, enter the first lock at 0630 and finally exit the last lock at Gatun by 4-30pm.
I was able to talk to the food and beverage director today as I was interested how you provision a ship that is serving at least 15,000 meals day. He gave me a few example to the supplies they took on board in Los Angeles.
5,000 lbs Butter
24,000 lbs Beef
3,000 lbs Cereal
5,200 lbs Cheeses
1,800 lbs Coffee
13,000 lbs Fish
14,000 lbs Flour
7,600 doz Fresh Eggs
60,000 lbs Fress Fruits
2,400 lbs Ice Cream
2000 lbs Lobster
3,600 gals Milk
17,000 lbs Potatos
24,000 lbs Poultry
10,000 lbs Rice
5.200 bs Seafood
8,000 lbs Sugar
250 varieties Wine
4,000 lbs Veal
64.000 lbs Vegetables
9.000 cups Yoghurt
I have no idea how many shopping baskets that would fill be you can work that out at your leasure.
Apparently lmost all cruise shups use the same supplier -- now that is a contract worth having.
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