The recently ended 2020 will be reviewed in the Malaga port annals for being one of the worst years in its history. Almost everything paralyzed by the health crisis caused by Covid-19, the Malaga docks, despite the pandemic, have not stopped being active; an idling gear in which curiously many things have happened.
Given this circumstance and taking up the tradition, today, in my first commune of the new year I will tell you what in my opinion has been the most outstanding ship of the fateful 2020.
And while there would be many candidates for this honorific award, in a year where cruise calls have been minimal, the title of the most significant ship of 2020 should undoubtedly bear the name of Sovereign; a tourist boat that is already part of the history of the port of Malaga.
After 32 years of active life and after making 13 stops in Malaga, the pandemic left this ship stopped at the north dock in Malaga; a stay that began on March 22 that lasted for 58 days. But regardless of this record that will be difficult to beat, the extraordinary docking of this ship will be remembered for two very significant events. In addition to donating food for the Malaga families most affected by the crisis, the Sovereign he established solidarity whistles in the port; a concert of ship horns who for two months captained this cruise ship.
With the paradox that in this horrible year the largest agri-food bulk unloading and the largest mineral bulk export carried out to date were carried out, and with the addition of being the year of the first Liquefied Natural Gas refueling, the Sovereign, who witnessed the absence of the Legion ship and the dance of ferries that sailed on the Melilla line, after his long 58 days stay, he returned to Malaga to say goodbye. In a brief berth that barely lasted six hours on the day of May 29, this ship set sail never to return. A sad march to the scrapyard; the goodbye of a ship that, without having stood out in its active history in Malaga, did dock without passengers at the north dock of the Levante maritime station.
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