Rough trip

[Cyclefrance]

A bit of shipping industry insight for you. On the top two pictures you can see laid out in rows a number of flexible hoses - they're the grey things that look a bit like over-sized worms. In the third picture they have been re-shaped by the force of the waves hitting the decking where they are stowed.
A lot of the ports where the vegoils are are loaded and discharged have pretty basic facilities - in some cases insufficient hoses or hoses in too poor condition to have the cargo either loaded or discharged. So these ships that are regularly in this trade tend to carry several lengths of flexible hoses themselves - nothing worse than being stuck in a port somewhere and wasting time which could threaten the vessel's next business, just because a hose wasn't available.