MS Midnatsol – Testimonial

MS Midnatsol, a large adventure cruise liner have made use of BarrierTech for the past 2 years used to combat Covid-19 on board. As the only ship in their fleet, they have been allowed to use this remedy instead of the traditional “Anti-Bac “. The results have been incredible says Steinar Olsen from Hurtigruten ASA.

Barrier Tech is water-based and quite pleasant to use. This resulted in zero resistance from passengers or crew when using it for hand sanitation.

Saving of time: A contaminated cabin requires 2 work hours (2 staff in one hour) to be disinfected. With BarrierTech in a fog-machine, it required 5 minutes of work. We can thus avoid also the considerable strain for the crew to be in a contaminated area, wearing protective gear. The staff who are exposed to this kind of hard manual labour, very often have to go on a sick leave when the work is done, due to the physical and psychological stress. This is our experience.

The effect of BarrierTech: We have compared the use of BarrierTech with “Anti-Bac“ which we previously used. After the change to BarrierTech, we have never had more than 14 sick persons on board at the same time. This is a number one can deal with perfectly well, even though the best is no cases. For example, with 3 cases we escalate the virus-fighting routines to maximum and each time we are able to stop the virus spreading without great costs (for instance hiring extra personnel).

All crew and passengers are taught to clean their hands with BarrierTech several times a day. We also have a system of cleaning the surface of all hand contact–points with BarrierTech.

Med vennlig hilsen/Best regards

Steinar Olsen

Hotellsjef MS Midnatsol Hurtigruten