MORE than 1,000 police officers who will provide security for delegates at this year’s 47th G7 summit will stay on board a cruise ship.
The high profile global gathering is scheduled for 11-13 Jun in Carbis Bay, Cornwall in England, with the massive logistics requiring significant accommodation support.
The cruise vessel Silja Europa will house 1,000 of the 6,500-strong police contingent, having been chartered for the purpose by the Devon and Cornwall Police for 10 days during which she will be moored off Falmouth.
Silja Europa is one of the largest cruise ferries in the world, and normally carries passengers in the Baltic Sea between Helsinki and Tallinn.
However for this deployment she will “serve as a floating hotel and meeting space for the policing operation,” with the deal brokered in record time by Miami-based Landry & Kling Global Cruise Services.
The company noted that “passenger ships, accommodation barges and other seagoing vessels present a turnkey solution to the challenge of housing workers and teams of people,” with all amenities in place including dining and meeting facilities.