Can you travel on a cargo ship

Can you travel on a cargo ship See More After my first container ship had dropped me off in Australia, I immediately booked my passed back to Europe on another cargo ship – but it didn’t stop at that. So far I have travelled on five different container ships and spent a total of nine months at sea. When we booked our passage, we knew we’d sail on or around 30th April, give or take 5 days either side. Apparently cargo takes priority on a cargo vessel so departure dates and times revolve around containers, vehicles and freight carriers. A week before we were due to sail, the port agent said, “Friday! Lunch time you must board. Your cabin will be ready and you will sail late Friday night.”

In the old days before the advent of flying the only way to travel across the seas was on the seas. It would take a long time on these cruises and typically the conditions were less than comfortable. Today anyone can fly to the other side of the world in hours. Other people choose to travel across the seas on cruise ships that are basically massive luxury floating hotels. But freight ships offer a break from it all and an unorthodox mode of travel. Freight cruises that carry a dozen or fewer passengers per ship (with only basic facilities and without an onboard doctor) include CMA CGM, which sails to the Far East, Europe, Asia and North and South America; PZM Polish Steamship Company, sailing seasonally between Minnesota and Amsterdam; and Hamburg Sud, which operates itineraries all over the world for Luxury freighter for Can you travel on a cargo ship. See More Up to 14 Nights: The shortest freighter cruises typically run between 10 and 14 days. These include transatlantic crossings, Aranui 5’s French Polynesian run and RMS St. Helena’s sailings from Cape Town to the Atlantic islands of St. Helena and Ascension about Can you travel on a cargo ship for Freighter cruises about Can you travel on a cargo ship. 15 Nights to Several Months: Cargo lines such as CMA-CGM and Hamburg Sud offer extended sailings as long as 100 days, with itineraries that include the Far East, South America, Asia and North and South America.

Steve Joury

Cargo trip advisor at Cargoholidays

Passionate about slow trip travel and sea. Steve know most shipping route and procedure to discover our beautiful world from sea on a container ship. He have been at most trips from 7 days on cargo travel to 140 days on board.

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