30 Hours, 220 KM Fully Loaded—Then Two Cargo Ships Squeezed Past Each Other at 2 AM!

Hello dear friends, welcome back to another new video. Today, I’m taking my fully loaded cargo ship on a journey of about 225 kilometers to deliver mangrove wood to a charcoal kiln. The entire trip takes around 30 hours, which means I have to travel through two nights and one full day before finally reaching the destination. Along the way, I still have to pass through a small salinity-control sluice gate. However, the gate is now kept open and no longer regulates the saltwater because the water on both sides has become equally salty. Later, as I enter a long, straight canal near the outskirts of Can Tho, I encounter one of the more tense moments of this journey. By around 3:00 AM the following night, I am already close to the charcoal kiln, but this time I have to enter another narrow canal to reach the unloading site. Several other wood-carrying boats are also moving through the same shallow canal. Passing each other here is extremely difficult. At one point, I have to use a lot of engine power to reverse my fully loaded ship and make more room for another boat to get past me. But because the canal is so narrow and shallow, neither of us has much space to maneuver. For nearly an hour, we slowly adjust our positions, move forward, reverse, and carefully work together until both boats finally manage to pass each other safely. It was stressful, especially in the middle of the night, but both sides stayed patient and cooperated with each other. When I finally reached the charcoal kiln and secured the ship for unloading the next morning, it was already after 3:00 AM. After almost 30 hours on the journey, I was exhausted, so I went to sleep almost immediately. Thank you so much for spending your time with me and following another long journey aboard my cargo ship. Goodbye for now, dear friends. I’ll see you again in the next video.