From Japan to Venezuela

Em Janeiro de 2006 embarquei para o Japão para recepcionar um petroleiro novo encomendado pela antiga Soponata mas recebido entretanto pela General Maritime que entretanto tinha absorvido a Soponata.

Era um dos meus sonhos de profissional do mar a recepção de um navio novo, ver o terminar da sua construcção, recebe-lo, fazer as provas de mar e sair para o mar num navio novinho em folha.

On January 2006 I embarked for Japan to receive a new tanker, which had been commissioned by Soponata but was delivered to General Maritime, since they had absorbed Soponata.

It was one of my professional dreams of to take part in the reception of a  new ship: to oversee the end of its construction, to do all the trials at sea, and to take it out on its maiden voyage.