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The ARANUI 3 sails every 15 days from Tahiti to the Islands.        There are now weekly cargo-passenger sailings on many routes.

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Freighter Pricing Guide:  Budget about $135 (about £90) 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 and offer all-outside staterooms and swimming pools.  Many newer ships also offer suites with separate dayroom and bedroom. But be prepared for schedule changes. Typical short round voyages are 28 days Liverpool to Philadelphia and back, or 28 days Le Havre to Martinique and Guadeloupe, with inter-island return voyage.

For the convenience of our clients, we accept payments in any of Pounds Sterling, Euros or US Dollars.

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We offer weekly passenger service on the following routes: 

	Line or Operator	Route	Passengers	Round Trip
	CMA CGM The French Line	Southampton / Shanghai / Hong Kong	8 / 10	69 days
	CMA CGM The French Line	Southampton / Port Kelang / China	7	63 days
	CMA CGM The French Line	Le Havre / Port Kelang / Shanghai / Hong Kong	10	63 days
	CMA CGM The French Line	Fos / Port Kelang / Yokohama / Hong Kong	7	63 days
	CMA CGM The French Line	Le Havre / Martinique / Guadeloupe	12	28 days
	F Laeisz (Hanjin route)	Long Beach / Pusan / Shanghai	4	28 days
	Grimaldi Lines	Southampton / East Mediterranean ports	12	35 days
	Grimaldi Lines	Southampton / Aegean ports	12	28 days
	Grimaldi Lines	Monfalcone / Ashdod / Haifa	12	14 days
	Grimaldi Lines	Bristol / Scandinavia / Antwerp / Southampton	12	8 days
	Independent Container Line	Antwerp / Liverpool / Philadelphia	2 / 6	28 days

Eight of these services can lift about 75 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 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.  First 2011 departures have now been announced for January 8 & 29, February 19 and March 12. A detailed account of a voyage in the ARANUI 3 can be found at the Romar Traveler Guides' article Freighter to Paradise ).

CMA CGM The French Line, Marseilles  (Operating four 12-passenger French-flag container ships between France and the French Antilles (the closest to the old banana boat routes), four 6-passenger ships to and from Australia and New Zealand via the US East Coast and Panama, a complete series of large and fast 10-passenger container ships between Southampton and other European ports and the Far East, plus Mediterranean - Far East, Europe -Trinidad - French Guiana - North Brazil, USA - UK/Continent, USA - Mediterranean and Europe - India).

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 South America, particularly Brazil, the West Indies, the Mediterranean and the Far East. Also US East Coast to New Zealand and Australia).

Reederei F Laeisz, Hamburg   (A fleet of passenger-carrying container ships operating between the Mediterranean and the Far East and between the US East Coast and US West Coast and Far East. F Laeisz is a traditional Hamburg shipowner, having owned the famous Flying "P" clipper ships, including PAMIR, PASSAT and PEKING).

NSB Freighter Cruises, Bremen   (A fleet of 50 ships operating Felixstowe to Far East, Southampton to Far East, Mediterranean - Far East, Haifa - Halifax - California - Hong Kong, Trans-Pacific, Felixstowe to West Coast South America 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. A detailed account of a voyage in the ISA can be found here: IJmuiden to Cleveland ).

Rickmers Reederei, Hamburg   (Operating a fleet of multi-purpose ships in 120-day 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 the Caribbean, Singapore and New Zealand and just 7 days between Antwerp and France. Last minute Philadelphia-Antwerp Transatlantic sometimes available. Further details of the Pearl String round-the-world service can be found in the following News Release ).

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 eventually due to be built at St Helena, a limited life probably remains for this service.)    

Transeste Schiffahrts, Jork   (Operating a small fleet of congtainer ships in Europe to South Africa, Europe to South America West Coast and Far East to South America trades. Also Far East to West Africa).

Kapitän Peter Zylmann Freighter Cruises, Kappeln (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: There is twice-monthly service between Antwerp and Cape Town. Antwerp is 45 minutes by rail from the Brussels Eurostar station, which in turn is only about two hours from London St Pancras. Click here for South Africa Services.

  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 have a look at the latest freighter travel news, reported by The Cruise Examiner at cybercruises.com;  investigate the Internet Guide to Freighter Travel, maintained in Los Angeles; check the Round the World Travel Guide; buy a copy of Around the World by Freighter; and finally consult TransGlobal Logistics if you have a vehicle to ship somewhere in the world,

Recent Freighter Travel News (May 2009)

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 21st May 2010

Our many suppliers of excellent freighter cruises and cargo ship voyages include:

Christian F Ahrenkiel, Alpha Ship, 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, Hurtigruten, Independent Container Line, 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, Tasman Orient Line, 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 (the last tramp voyages were offered by Egon Oldendorff and are no longer available, nor are banana boat voyages since the Horn Line service closed in October 2009):

Amerigo Express Line, Bank Line, Blue Star Line, H Buss, 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, Horn 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.