port of call

I’m a married woman in my 30s with a horror of vacationing in hot places, breaking bread with strangers and visiting ports of call where the local culture consists of Margaritavilles and novelty T-shirt shops.

So you can imagine the appeal of the possibility of becoming the first European port of call for masses of container ships from Asia, depending on how fast the polar ice continues to melt.

It began at the Munich Security Conference last month, a regular port of call for a US vice-president.

My assessment is that if there were complaints - or claims of bad behaviour on set - the first port of call would have been the production company.

It added that the crew was safe following the incidents, which happened 57 nautical miles south of the Yemeni city of Aden, and the vessel was proceeding to the next port of call.