European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Are Home. The Sayonara slops Only Long enough to be unloaded loaded again. After breakfast egg cheese and breads we head Back to the steering House through the rain Tho landscape has turned slowly dutch hat to the horizon on either Bank houses Are off in the distance now. Tho land Between is ii n a rave. Tend Toi Holland s Dairy cows. Under Gray skies and through Mic it. Of ram. The morning slowly passes de Korle return to the it Reg House he s had some sleep and a Shower and lakes the Helm As the Sayonara lights Stormy water another dash through the ram for a to  at noon who docs the cooking when your wife is nut aboard someone asks via Captain. The  or says. And when he is alone"7 i Don t eat i have no interest in  about 3 p m we take on 30.000 liners of fuel from a Tanker slowing just Long enough Tor the other Barge to lash to our Side. Best to tank up Loday de Korte says the Price of fuel is going up  we be been sailing dutch Waters Tor a couple of hours. This is the Home stretch the last 75 Miles to Rotterdam past the impressive line of windmills it Kinderdick. Past the rows of dying boat Yards the1 empty dry docks rotting slowly in the rain. We pass the Yard thai built the Sayonara and de Korie describes the $3 million process. The Sayonara is the first of the future. A powerful modern Barge capable of massive loads shipping on the Rhine has increased but the number of ships has gone Down. That s the Way things will continue he says. The Sayonara was built As a Container ship is one of the Besl Container ships sailing today. But if the Container business Ever fails we can still haul Coal or other  finally passing under a last Bridge we enter Rotterdam its Skyline tilled with cranes and masts and towers barges and liners and submarines. It is easily the world s largest Porf. We sail for nearly an hour More before reaching the Sayonara s berth. With a Rush of reversing motors de Korle guides his ship alongside pressing us carefully against the Dock s rubber tires. There is no Jolt. As they say in the shipping business Safe Home. Early morning unloading of Container Al the Inland port of Duisburg Germany. The Sayonara. Whih Folta a Sta flog � " be Tond a in Termina Doc " " tuesday september 3, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17