This port worker is releasing the mooring wraps (robes) so a cruise ship can push back and sail away. Those mushroom-shaped iron posts are called maritime bollards. Sint Maarten has built several of these concrete platforms, accessible by a catwalk, to extend their docks in order to accommodate up to six cruise ships at a time in the Phillipsburg’s port. “Bon voyage” as the French say it. Or “veilige reis” in Dutch. And in English, “safe trip.”
