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Freighter Cruises Worldwide

   

ARANUI 3 sails every 15 days from Tahiti to the Islands.        Container ships now offer weekly service on many routes.

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Freighter Pricing Guide:  Budget about $135 (about £70) per person per day plus any dues and taxes.

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The Cruise People Ltd offer cargo ship voyages up to 120 days duration on about 300 freighters carrying passengers worldwide. While working ships, most were built in the 1990s and 2000s, offering all-outside staterooms and swimming pools.  Some newer ships actually offer suites with a separate dayroom and bedroom. But be prepared for schedule changes. Typical short round voyages are 21 days Liverpool to Montreal and back, including two or three days in Montreal, or 28 days Le Havre to Martinique and Guadeloupe, with inter-island return voyage. Payments are accepted in any of Pounds Sterling, Euros or US Dollars.

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We offer weekly service on the following routes: 

	Line or Operator	Route	Passengers	Round Trip
	CMA CGM The French Line	Le Havre / Hong Kong / China	10	56 days
	CMA CGM The French Line	Southampton / Port Kelang / China	10	56 days
	NSB (Evergreen route)	Thamesport / Tanjung Pelepas / China / Hong Kong	6	56 days
	NSB (Hanjin route)	Long Beach / Seattle / Shanghai	10	35 days
	Grimaldi Lines	Southampton / Mediterranean ports	12	35 days
	Grimaldi Lines	Southampton / Mediterranean ports	12	28 days
	CMA CGM The French Line	Le Havre / Martinique / Guadeloupe	12	28 days
	Senator Lines	Long Beach / Japan / Hong Kong	8	42 days
	Grimaldi Lines	Bristol / Scandinavia / Southampton	12	8 days

Seven of these services can lift about 60 passengers every week from UK and nearby ports. Other routes are also available to Australia, New Zealand, South America, South Africa, etc.  Port-to-port and one-way bookings are also accepted.

Cargo-Passenger Operators

Aranui 3 from Tahiti   (CPTM - Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime operate the 180-passenger ARANUI 3 between Tahiti and the Marquesas and Tuamotu Islands. The largest number of passenger berths on any cargo ship worldwide.  A detailed account of a voyage in the ARANUI 3 can be found at the Romar Traveler Guides' article Freighter to Paradise ).

Bank Line (Swire Shipping)  (Round the World in 120 days - monthly service with four ships, British officers, Russian crew, out from Dunkirk via Panama to Tahiti and New Zealand and back by way of the Pacific Islands and Singapore. Carrying twelve passengers each, vessels are owned by Swire Shipping and managed by Andrew Weir Shipping Ltd).

CMA CGM The French Line, Marseilles  (Operating four 12-passenger French-flag container ships between France and the French Antilles, eight fast container ships between Southampton and China via Malta, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong; eight fast container ships between Southampton, Port Kelang and China, plus four ships to and from Australia and New Zealand via Panama. Other ships operate  Mediterranean-Far East, Europe-Trinidad-French Guiana-North Brazil and Europe-West Africa).

Grimaldi Lines, Naples  (Operating a large fleet of Italian-owned vessels  between Southampton and the Mediterranean, Tilbury and Argentina and Tilbury and West Africa . The 35-day Mediterranen service is called Euro-Med and operates on a fixed day of the week basis).

Hamburg-Süd, Hamburg  (The largest freighter travel bureau in Europe, representing ships serving Australia, New Zealand, South America, the West Indies, the Mediterranean and the Far East. Four "Cap" ships now serve Australia and New Zealand via Panama).

Horn Line, Hamburg  (A subsidiary of Del Monte operating banana boats carrying 12 passengers each on routes from Europe to Guadeloupe, Martinique, Cartagena, Panama and Central America. Check the line's web site - Horn Line makes a UK call at Dover.  

Reederei F Laeisz, Hamburg   (A fleet of 20 passenger-carrying container ships operating between the Far East and US West Coast, US East Coast and Far East, and between the Far East and India).

NSB Freighter Cruises, Bremen   (A fleet of 50 ships operating Thamesport to Far East, Felixstowe & Southampton to Far East, Mediterranean - Far East, Local Far East, Trans-Pacific, US East Coast-Italy-India, Mediterranean-Canada and other routes such as Europe-West Indies and Brazil-South Africa-Far East).

PZM Polish Steamship Company, Szczecin  (Operating a fleet of Polish-flag bulk ships to destinations worldwide, with twice-monthly Transatlantic service in season between Amsterdam's port of IJmuiden and Cleveland and Burns Harbor, Indiana. The last "tramp" style passenger service available in the world).

Rickmers Reederei, Hamburg   (Operating a fleet of multi-purpose ships in Round-the-World service via Southeast Asia and the Far East, out by way of Suez and back through Panama via the United States, as well as between Europe and Australia/New Zealand via the  Suez Canala and via Panama, also Europe-Caribbean).

St Helena Line Ltd  (From Portland, Dorset, twice yearly to Cape Town via Ascension and St Helena. Usual route is from Cape Town to St Helena and Ascension via Walvis Bay, the last long-distance Royal Mail Ship, RMS ST HELENA. As an airport is due to be built at St Helena, a limited life probably remains for this service.)    

Kapitän Peter Zylmann Freighter Cruises, Maasholm (Representing several German owners operating to the Americas, Far East and Worldwide, as well as coastal cruises within Europe to Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Mediterranean and North Africa).

Cargo-Passenger Service to and from South Africa: One ship runs in a 49-day rotation from Thamesport to Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban - and vice versa . The DAL EAST LONDON offers this service. Please call or e-mail for details.   Click here for South Africa 

  Also Visit our Round-the-World and Extended Voyages Page

Schedules are subject to change due to cargo and weather.

Freighter Cruise Links

Links are provided above for freighter operators. But also investigate the Internet Guide to Freighter Travel, maintained in Los Angeles, subscribe to the magazine Freighter Travel Review, published in the UK, check the Round the World Travel Guide, buy a copy of the book Around the World by Freighter, and finally check with TransGlobal Logistics for vehicle shipments worldwide,

Internet Guide to Freighter Travel

Round the World Travel Guide - by Freighter

Around the World by Freighter

For Overseas Vehicle Shipments

TransGlobal Logistics, with depots in both Europe and North America, can arrange shipment of your vehicle to many destinations worldwide and at reasonable rates.  Please  follow the link above for their web site.

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Did you know that flying produces 36 times more carbon dioxide per passenger-mile than sea travel?

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Last Revised 10th July 2008

Our many suppliers of excellent freighter cruises and banana boat voyages include:

Christian F Ahrenkiel, Alpha Ship, Bank Line, H Buss, CMA CGM The French Line, Columbia Ship Management, Compagnie Polynésienne de Transport Maritime (CPTM), Delmas-Vieljeux, Peter Doehle, French Asia Line, French West Indies Line, Grimaldi Freighter Cruises, Grimaldi Lines, Hamburg-Süd, Hansa Shipmanagement, Hapag-Lloyd, Horn Line, Hurtigruten, Interorient Navigation, Reederei F Laeisz, Leonhardt & Blumberg, MCC, Mare Schifffahrtsgesellschaft, Martime Gesellschaft, Mediterranean Club Express, Melfi Lines, NSB Freighter Cruises, NSB Niederelbe Schiffahrtssgesellschaft Buxtehude, Reederei Nord, Norwegian Coastal Voyage, OPDR, Oltmann Shipping, PZM Polish Steamship Company, Reederei B Rickmers, Rickmers Linie Pearl String Service, Rickmers Reederei, St Helena Line, Reederei Heinrich Schepers, Reederei Karl Schlüter, H Schuldt, TFDS, Transeste Shipping, Andrew Weir Shipping, Tom Wörden, Reederei Hermann Wulff, Frachtschiff Touristik Kapitän Peter Zylmann.

The following operators no longer carry passengers but we can place you with other owners:

Amerigo Express Line, Blue Star Line, CP Ships, Canada Maritime, Cast Containers, Chilean Line, Columbus Line, Contship Containerlines, Costa Container Lines, Elders & Fyffes, Furness Withy, Fyffes Line, Geest Line, Hanseatic Shipping Co Ltd, Independent Container Line, Intership Navigation Co Ltd, Ivaran Lines, Lykes Lines, MSC, Mediterranean Shipping Co, Mineral Shipping Co, Egon Oldendorff, P&O Nedlloyd Containers, Polish Ocean Lines, Projex, Safmarine, Seatrade Groningen, TIM Shipping, United Baltic Corporation.