Freighter Expert Fred Cherney Retires From The Cruise People’s Toronto Office: London Office To Take Over Cargo Ship Bookings

 

Fred Cherney from the Toronto office of The Cruise People Ltd yesterday announced his retirement from the field of freighter travel, after thirty-three years in the business.

In a statement from Toronto, Fred said “Instead of retiring my sweater, The Cruise People Ltd (Canada) is retiring from the passenger freighter business. The company will continue to be a very experienced source of ocean liner voyages, cruise ships, river boats and expedition cruises. The Langs [owners of the Canadian firm] have been in business since 1972.”

In his message to past passengers, Mr Cherney said, “I’d like to thank my past clients who sailed over the years. It has been a real pleasure working with you and reading your voyage reports. My e-mail account will remain open for a time and I’d love to hear from you.” Fred can be reached at fcherney@thecruisepeople.ca.

He went on to add that “those interested in passenger freighter voyages should contact our London office. Miri Lopusna is very experienced in freighters all over the world and will look after your needs. I recommend her highly.”

Miri joined The Cruise People in 2009 and  will continue to book freighter passengers on routes worldwide. Being close to owners in Europe, the London office now counts more than 350 passenger-carrying cargo ships on its books and Miri books passengers from around the world. She can be reached in London on +44 (0)20 7723 2450 (UK time) or by e-mail any time at cruise@cruisepeople.co.uk.

Photos: Fred Cherney (top) and Miri Lopusna (above).

Be Creative!

Recently, Fred Cherney, fcherney@freighters.ca, 1.800.961.5536 Ex 22, of our passenger freighter division published a list of unique voyages booked recently by clients.

Perhaps you’d like to take a crack at creating your own ideal vacation voyage!

Unfortunately, cabotage and security restrictions enter the picture so there are a few conditions.

The voyage must cross an ocean to avoid cabotage restrictions.
The voyage must be over 10 days in length as most suppliers don’t want to sail the majority of an itinerary with an empty cabin.
Ports must be major trading hubs. No passenger freighters to places unless they import or export in volume.

Go to it! Where would you embark? What ports would you like to visit? Where would you disembark? What time of year would you choose?
We’ll publish responses which could work and try to provide actual product information if we can.

Additional Ship Introduced To North Atlantic Cargo-Passenger Service

 

News has reached us, via our London office, from F Laeisz in Rostock that its eight-passenger Panamax container ship CSAV Pyrenées will join the MSC North Atlantic service with her first sailing from New York on Saturday, September 22. Service will be every five weeks thereafter.

The 35-day round voyage will cover the following ports: Felixstowe, Antwerp, Le Havre, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, New York, Bremerhaven and Felixstowe.

CSAV Pyrenées began life as Pohang Senator in 1998 and has berths for eight passengers in four suites. Subject to final confirmation, fares are likely to be €89 per person per day double and €99 per day for sole occupancy. Port charges of €85 and deviation insurance of €107 per passenger are additional in each case.

CSAV Pyrenées has four suites that can also be sold for single occupancy:

Twin suite No 1, D Deck, beds 6’7″  x 2’7″, view may be obscured by cargo
Twin  suite No 2, D Deck, beds 6’7″ x 2’7″, free view from the living room, starboard side
Twin suite No 3, E Deck, beds 6’7″ x 2’7″, free view from the living room
Double suite No 4, E Deck, bed 6’7″ x 4’7″, free view from bedroom, starboard side

Each suite has  a total area of about 200 sq ft with bedroom, sitting room, shower/wc, refrigerator,desk and chair, double wardrobe, seating area, tape deck, multi-system VCR, radio and cd player.

Non-US/Canadian citizens must be in possession of a full US B1/B2 Visa for this voyage as cargo ships are not signatory to the US visa waiver schemes. ESTA’s will not be accepted.

For further details please call Miri Lopusna at The Cruise People Ltd in London on 020 7723 2450 or e-mail cruise@cruisepeople.co.uk or Fred Cherney in Toronto at 1.800.961.5536 Ext 22 or fcherney@freighters.ca.

The Cruise People Samples A Cargo Ship Voyage

by Kevin Griffin of our London office writing in cybercruises.com

On Sunday, August 19, at 9:30 pm, a colleague and I joined the 5,780 TEU container ship CMA CGM Chopin at Southampton Container Terminals, berthed forward of Hapag-Lloyd’s brand-new 13,600 TEU Hamburg Express, calling on her maiden voyage. It is late and as we have eaten on the train on the way down from London, we sign on board and turn in early, anticipating a 6:30 am departure. Running into Commandant Serra, we learn that in fact our departure has been delayed until 10:30 am, so we are able to sleep in a little — breakfast runs 7 to 9 am.

My colleague, Miri, has lucked in on this one, as while we are both on Deck F along with the commandant and chief engineer, she gets the Senior Officer’s Spare Cabin A with 4’7” double bed, while I am accommodated in the Owners Cabin, which has two 3-foot beds. Both staterooms are forward-facing and as they are on the highest cabin deck have a view over the container load.

CMA CGM Chopin and her sister ships Puccini, Verdi and Wagner are each furnished with five cabins for passengers, two of which are supplied with double beds. Each cabin is en suite and has its own sofa, coffee table, desk, chair and fridge as well as two wide windows facing forward and its own deck chairs stowed away next to the wardrobes. Those on Deck E, however, are likely to have their windows obscured by containers stowed in front of them.

The ship is also equipped with an outdoor swimming pool on Deck E and a gymnasium, rowing machine, bicycle, ping pong table and library on Deck A.

As our Monday morning departure has been delayed we are able to enjoy a relatively relaxed breakfast in the Officers Mess on Deck B — the four decks between our cabins and our meals also make for good exercise. Breakfast is fried eggs and brown toast with tea for me, and baguette with jam and coffee for Miri.

We also meet our fellow passengers, Pat from Washington DC and Jewel, an American now living in Puerto Aventuras, Mexico, near Playa del Carmen. Both ladies boarded at Southampton and will be accompanying the ship as far as Jebel Ali, and then flying home from Dubai. Departure is interesting as, with the tide out, we have to reverse through a narrow channel and then turn in the congested waters off a local yacht club anchorage before we are able to proceed down the Solent and thus to sea.

Once down the Solent, our lunch as we pass Cowes is Salad Nicoise, Hamburger Steak with mustard sauce and green beans, assorted cheeses with fresh baguettes, tea, coffee and an ice cream stick. Meal hours on French ships are quite a bit later than on German ones, with breakfast typically running as late as 9 m, lunch the usual 12 to 1 pm and dinner at a reasonable 7 to 8 pm.

This compares to most German ships with 7:30 to 8 am breakfast, 11:30 to 12:30 lunch and 5:30 to 6 pm dinner.

At 4 pm we have our safety drill on the bridge and are instructed on the signals for Emergency, Fire and Abandon Ship and shown to the lifeboats six decks down on Deck A. Having walked down from the bridge (there is also a lift) we four passengers decide we might as well continue down to the Upper Deck and do a circuit off the ship, walking the port side up to the bows and climbing into the forecastle and later back on the starboard side all the way to the stern to complete the full circuit and re-enter the ship on the port side again.

This class of ship has the superstructure three-quarters aft with containers stowed both forward and aft of the accommodation. This walk-around promenade passes under the outboard containers and gives access to all areas of the ship, but it is requested that passengers inform the officer of the watch when they go forward so that the crew are aware of their whereabouts.

Our ship was built by the Samsung Shipbuilding in South Korea in 2004, measures 951 feet overall by 131 feet, and has a maximum speed of 25 knots. While only half the size of the Hapag-Lloyd ship berthed astern of us in Southampton,  CMA CGM Chopin is still a post-Panamax ship, too wide to transit the old locks of the Panama Canal. Her senior officers and cadets are French and junior officers and crew Filipino, having just taken over from a Romanian crew on the previous voyage.

This we learn from Adelpho, the Filipino third officer, who signed us in on Sunday night and from Anthony, our steward, who, as it turns out, had served five years on board Queen Elizabeth 2 (and was on board when I crossed in her in 2001) and a year in Queen Mary 2 before moving over to CMA CGM five years ago.

Dinner that evening is a very good vegetable soup (we all have seconds), Chicken Cordon Bleu with spaghetti, assorted cheeses and fresh fruit for dessert, accompanied by the French line’s usual complimentary table wine. Much revolves around the meals on the French-flag ships especially as the chef is of course French and wine comes with the meals.

That evening, as we coast past Dunkirk and the beaches of Flanders and Holland, we all turn in early for an expected 5 am arrival at the Nieuw Waterway into Rotterdam the next day, where we will be duly alongside our assigned container berth by 7 am.

The European Container Terminal’s Amazonekade, where we berth in the Port of Rotterdam is forty kilometres from Central Rotterdam. The terminal itself is quite fascinating as most of its trailers and straddle carriers are driverless, with the real people only operating the ship-to-shore gantries and removing the twist locks from containers coming ashore. Worth a visit in Rotterdam itself are the preserved Holland America liner Rotterdam, the Hotel New York, once the headquarters of the Holland America Line, and the city’s Maritime Museum.

Rotterdam is modern, having been heavily bombed during the Second World War. Be warned, however, that the taxi fare between the container berth and the city itself can be €100 each way. Luckily, the passengers on our ship are able to split the expense four ways. Dinner on our return to the ship is a pink grapefruit seafood cocktail followed by roast pork tenderloin with gravy (and the lunch we missed was chicken).

The next day is another day at sea, with more great soups, salmon for lunch and lamb stew for dinner, along with the usual complimentary wine and assortment of cheeses and baguettes. That afternoon, we are invited to go on a guided engine room tour to see the ship’s 10-cylinder 77,000-horsepower diesel engine and controls, shaft and auxiliary generators, workshop, freshwater condenser and oil and water separators.

This is followed by time on the bridge observing the navigation of the ship. We pick up our Elbe pilot at about 5 pm, pass Cuxhaven before the river narrows, and then Brunsbüttel, at the mouth of the Kiel Canal, making our way up the Elbe and finally coming alongside in Hamburg at 11:30 pm. After a fascinating four nights, we disembark early the next morning to go about our business.

Our fellow passengers meanwhile will carry on to Antwerp, Dunkirk and Le Havre, where the ship is being replenished with new supplies today, and then on to Port Said East, Khor Fakkan in Oman and Jebel Ali in Dubai, where they will disembark.

For those wishing to investigate longer voyages more than 300 passenger-carrying cargo ships are now available. Bookings can be made through specialist Fred Cherney at The Cruise People, Ltd. in Toronto at 1.800.961.5536 ext 22, fcherney@thecruisepeople.ca .

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CruiseTricks Chooses Cruise People/CMA CGM Cargo-Passenger Route as one of its Top Ten Unusual Cruises in the World

CMA CGM (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The German site www.cruisetricks.de has chosen The Cruise People’s CMA CGM New York to Seattle route via Suez as one of its “Top Ten Unusual Cruises in the World” for 2011. In making its choice, CruiseTricks’s Franz Neumeier said,

“That the French company CMA CGM offers the possibility for up to seven passengers to travel on three of its cargo ships is not unusual. Many cargo ships carry passengers these days. What is unusual about the service offered by the CMA CGM Figaro, CMA CGM Tosca and CMA CGM Dolphin, however, is that it follows the route of the first World Cruise undertaken by a passenger ship, as performed by Hamburg America Line’s Cleveland in 1909. These voyages can be booked through The Cruise People Ltd in London.”

Three ships, the CMA CGM Dolphin, CMA CGM Figaroand, CMA CGM Tosca(shown below), now offer an interesting itinerary between New York and Seattle, as well as Vancouver BC, via the Suez Canal. Known as CMA CGM’s Columbus Loop, the full 105-day round voyage is made via ports in the Far East. Eastbound, ships leave New York via Norfolk and Savannah and sail directly to Tanjung Pelepas, a port in Malaysia located just across the water from Singapore. Calls are then made at Hong Kong, Yantian and Shanghai before proceeding to Pusan, in South Korea, and on to Seattle and Vancouver.

The return voyage is made from Vancouver to Yokohama and then calls at the Chinese ports of Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong and Yantian before returning to New York via Tanjung Pelepas.

Voyage time from New York to Seattle is 55 days and from Seattle to New York 50 days (Vancouver to New York is 46 days). This voyage is for those who love the sea, the longest transit being 29 days from Savannah to Tanjung Pelepas (on the return, Tanjung Pelepas to New York is 23 days).

 

The new routing retraces the route of the first World Cruise, which was offered by Hamburg America Line’s Cleveland before the Panama Canal had even been opened – but takes half the time. Chartered by Frank C Clark of New York, an early cruise organizer, Cleveland left New York on October 16, 1909, and took 108 days to proceed across the Atlantic to ports in the Mediterranean, Suez Canal, India and the Far East before finishing the world’s first Round-the-World Cruise in San Francisco on January 31, 1910. Passengers then returned to their homes from the West Coast by train while Cleveland retraced her steps on a second world cruise. Equally, passengers taking the new Columbus Loop cruise can travel around the world in either direction and complete their circumnavigation in less than two months by making the rail journey across North America.

CMA CGM Figaro and CMA CGM Tosca carry seven passengers each in different mixes of single and double cabins, with fares set at €100 per person per day or €110 per day for sole occupancy of a double cabin. CMA CGM Dolphin carries up to six passengers in three double cabins. Fares include full board, port charges, deviation insurance and complimentary French table wine with lunch and dinner. Part voyages are also possible but the full 105-day round voyage starts at €10,500 (about $14,645 or £9,350). New York to Seattle is €5,500 (about $7.670 or £4,895) for 55 days and Seattle to New York is €5,000 (about $6.975 or £4,450) for 50 days.

New Trans-At Freighter Service

Several people shopping for trans-Atlantic space in 2012 have found most ships sold out.

Here is a new product, hot off the press, which may have availability.

If you are interested, I strongly suggest acting quickly before she fills.

MV RIO MADEIRA
Northern Europe to/from eastern USA.
28-day round trip which means a sailing every 28 days.
Itinerary – New York, Norfolk, Charleston, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Le Havre, Southampton, New York

Cabotage (and Jones Act) restrictions require all passenger voyages to include an ocean crossing. Segments are available subject to cabotage and availability.
Passengers accepted from age 6 to 79.

Since this is a freighter, the USA requires all passengers to obtain a B1/B2 visa unless travelling under a Canadian or US passport.

There are only two cabins so space will go quickly.

Please contact Fred Cherney of The Cruise People, Ltd. at 1-800-961-5536 ext 22 or e-mail fcherney@freighters.ca for details.

New Transatlantic Freighter Service to England

 

Photograph of Hyundai Tianjin © A Spörri

The Port of Felixstowe is celebrating the start of a new transatlantic cargo-passenger service with the arrival of Hyundai Tianjin as part of the new Americas Europe Express (AEE) service – the third transatlantic service to be operated by the New World Alliance (APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine and Mitsui OSK).

The New World Alliance is deploying high reefer capacity ships in the new service with an average capacity of 3,200 TEU. APL will supply three vessels while HMM and MOL contribute one each.  HMM’s Hyundai Tianjin, which is  on charter from NSB in Germany, carries seven passengers in an Owners cabin, two Doubles and a Single. Fares are €90 to €95 per person per day (€105-110 for sole occupancy) plus port charges and deviation insurance.

The AEE service rotation is: Rotterdam, Bremerhaven (day 2), Felixstowe (day 4), New York (day 13), Charleston (day 15) and Manzanillo, Panama (day 20), with return by way of Charleston (day 25) and New York (day 27) for Rotterdam (day 35). An interesting aspect of this service is that it also connects Europe with Panama, with a 10-day round trip south from Charleston to Punta Manzanillo.

For passenger bookings please call Miri Lopusna at The Cruise People Ltd in London on 020 7723 2450 or e-mail cruise@cruisepeople.co.uk or Fred Cherney in Toronto at 1-800-961-5536 ex 22, fcherney@freighters.ca

Hanjin Palermo To Revive Montreal-Mediterranean Cargo-Passenger Service

 

 

For the past couple of years travellers have been unable to book passage between Europe and Canada and have had to travel via US ports. But starting in April space will be available for eight passengers on the NSB vessel Hanjin Palermo.

Hanjin Palermo will depart Algeciras April 1 and Lisbon April 2 on her first Canadian voyage, which is due to arrive at Montreal on April 10. Returning, she will leave Montreal on April 13 for Algeciras, Valencia, Cagliari, Salerno, Livorno and Genoa, where she arrives May 1, before returning via Fos-sur-Mer, Algeciras and Lisbon to Montreal. Montreal to Genoa is an 18-day voyage,  while her May 2 departure from Genoa will see her back in Montreal on May 15, for a crossing time of 13 days. Subject to space being available, the full 35-day round voyage can also be booked as a ten-port Mediterranean and Transatlantic cruise from any of the ports of call.

The 45,625 deadweight ton Hanjin Palermo can accommodate up to eight passengers in an Owners cabin and two double cabins and two single cabins for sole travellers. Fares are €80 per day for the singles, €90 per person per day for the doubles and €95 per person per day for the Owners cabin, while sole occupancy of a double is €100 per day and the Owners €105 per day. Port charges are extra at €85 and deviation insurance is €105 for voyages up to 15 days and €160 for longer trips. The vessel is equipped with an indoor pool and fitness room as well as lounge and video/TV room. Meals are taken with the officers.

Note: This is a preliminary announcement as the vessel was fully booked on her previous Transatlantic route to and from New York. Reservations to and from Montreal will only open once existing bookings have been re-accommodated.

For further details please call Miri Lopusna at The Cruise People Ltd in London on 020 7723 2450 or e-mail cruise@cruisepeople.co.uk or in North America call Fred Cherney at 1-800-961-5536 Ext 22 or fcherney@thecruisepeople.ca

CruiseTricks Chooses Cruise People/CMA CGM Cargo-Passenger Route as one of its Top Ten Unusual Cruises in the World

 

 

The German site www.cruisetricks.de has chosen The Cruise People’s CMA CGM New York to Seattle route via Suez as one of its “Top Ten Unusual Cruises in the World” for 2011. In making its choice, CruiseTricks’s Franz Neumeier said,

“That the French company CMA CGM offers the possibility for up to seven passengers to travel on three of its cargo ships is not unusual. Many cargo ships carry passengers these days. What is unusual about the service offered by the CMA CGM Figaro, CMA CGM Tosca and CMA CGM Dolphin, however, is that it follows the route of the first World Cruise undertaken by a passenger ship, as performed by Hamburg America Line’s Cleveland in 1909. These voyages can be booked through The Cruise People Ltd in London.”

 

 

Three ships, the CMA CGM Dolphin, CMA CGM Figaroand, CMA CGM Tosca(shown below), now offer an interesting itinerary between New York and Seattle, as well as Vancouver BC, via the Suez Canal. Known as CMA CGM’s Columbus Loop, the full 105-day round voyage is made via ports in the Far East. Eastbound, ships leave New York via Norfolk and Savannah and sail directly to Tanjung Pelepas, a port in Malaysia located just across the water from Singapore. Calls are then made at Hong Kong, Yantian and Shanghai before proceeding to Pusan, in South Korea, and on to Seattle and Vancouver.

The return voyage is made from Vancouver to Yokohama and then calls at the Chinese ports of Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong and Yantian before returning to New York via Tanjung Pelepas.

Voyage time from New York to Seattle is 55 days and from Seattle to New York 50 days (Vancouver to New York is 46 days). This voyage is for those who love the sea, the longest transit being 29 days from Savannah to Tanjung Pelepas (on the return, Tanjung Pelepas to New York is 23 days).

The new routing retraces the route of the first World Cruise, which was offered by Hamburg America Line’s Cleveland before the Panama Canal had even been opened – but takes half the time. Chartered by Frank C Clark of New York, an early cruise organizer, Cleveland left New York on October 16, 1909, and took 108 days to proceed across the Atlantic to ports in the Mediterranean, Suez Canal, India and the Far East before finishing the world’s first Round-the-World Cruise in San Francisco on January 31, 1910. Passengers then returned to their homes from the West Coast by train while Cleveland retraced her steps on a second world cruise. Equally, passengers taking the new Columbus Loop cruise can travel around the world in either direction and complete their circumnavigation in less than two months by making the rail journey across North America.

CMA CGM Figaro and CMA CGM Tosca carry seven passengers each in different mixes of single and double cabins, with fares set at €100 per person per day or €110 per day for sole occupancy of a double cabin. CMA CGM Dolphin carries up to six passengers in three double cabins. Fares include full board, port charges, deviation insurance and complimentary French table wine with lunch and dinner. Part voyages are also possible but the full 105-day round voyage starts at €10,500 (about $14,645 or £9,350). New York to Seattle is €5,500 (about $7.670 or £4,895) for 55 days and Seattle to New York is €5,000 (about $6.975 or £4,450) for 50 days.

For further details please call Fred Cherney at 1-800-961-5536 Ex 22 or email fcherney@thecruisepeople.ca.

Longer Passenger Freighter Voyages

Pacific Express 3 Service – Complete, round voyage is approximately 77 days. From New York to Tanger Med (Morocco), Suez Canal passage, Jebel Ali (UAE), Singapore, Hong Kong, Chiwan (China), Xiamen (China), Shanghai, Pusan (South Korea), Houston, Mobile, Miami, Jacksonville, Savannah, and back to New York. Priced from EURO 100 – 110 per day plus port taxes/fees.

Pad Service – Complete, round voyage is approximately 84 days. From New York to Savannah, Kingston (Jamaica – no embarkation or disembarkation), Punta Manzanillo (Panama), Papeete, Lautoka (Fiji), Noumea (New Caledonia), Sydney (Australia), Melbourne (Australia), Napier (New Zealand), Tauranga (New Zealand), Punta Manzanillo, Kingston, Savannah, Philadelphia, Tilbury (England), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Dunkerque (France), and back to New York. Priced from EURO 110 – 120 per day.

MEX Service – Complete, round voyage is approximately 77 days. From Valencia (Spain) to Barcelona (Spain), Fos Sur Mer (France), Genoa, (Italy), Malta, Damietta (Egypt), Khor Al Fakkan (UAE), Port Kelang (Lalaysia), Nansha (China), Xiamen (China), Kwangyang (South Korea), Busan (South Korea), Shanghai, Ningbo (China), Xiamen, Nansha, Chiwan (China), Tanjung Pelepas (Malaysia), Port Kelang, Beirut (Lebanon), Malta and back to Valencia. Priced from EURO 100 – 110 per day plus port taxes/fees.

Indamex Service – Complete, round voyage is approximately 56 days. From New York to Norfolk, Savannah, Charleston, Port Said (Egypt), *Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), *Port Qasim (Pakistan), *Nhava Sheva (India), *Mundra (India), Damiette (Egypt) and back to New York. Note – no embarkation or disembarkation in starred ports (*). Priced from EURO 100 – 110 per day plus port taxes/fees.

French Asia Line – CMA – Complete, round voyage is approximately 70 days. From Zeebrugge (Belgium) to Port Kelang (Malaysia), Singapore, Ningbo (China), Shanghai, Yantian (China), Tanjung Pelepas (Malaysia), Port Kelang, Le Havre, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Rotterdam and back to Zeebrugge. Priced from EURO 100 – 105 per day plus port taxes/fees.

Columbus Loop – Complete, round voyage is approximately 105 days. From Vancouver to Yokohama (Japan), Shanghai, Ningbo (China), Hong Kong, Yantian (China), Tanjung Pelepas (Malaysia), Suez Canal passage, New York, Norfolk, Savannah, Suez Canal transit, Tanjung Pelepas, Hong Kong, Yantian, Shanghai, Pusan (South Korea), Seattle and back to Vancouver. Priced from EURO 80 – 90 per day plus port taxes/fees.

Voyage 6-10 – Complete, round voyage is approximately 70 days. Philadelphia, Savannah, Panama Canal transit, Balboa, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Timaru, Port Chalmers, Napier, Tauranga, Auckland, Panama Canal transit, Manzanillo, Cartagena, Philadelphia. Priced at approx. EURO 101 per day.

MS MSC UGANDA (Laeisz) – Complete, round voyage is approximately 56 days from the USA east coast to the east coast of South America. From Charleston to Norfolk, New York, Baltimore, Savannah, Freeport, Caucedo, Santos, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande, Sao Francisco, Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Suape, Caucedo, Freeport and back to Charleston. Priced from EURO 80 – 85 per day plus port taxes/fees.

Voyage 6-05 – Europe from the west coast – Complete, round voyage is approximately 70 days. From Vancouver to Oakland, Long Beach, Manzanillo, Lazaro Cardenas, Puerto Quetzal, Panama Canal transit, Cartagena, Tanger Med, Rotterdam, Tilbury, Hamburg, Le Havre, Cartagena, Panama Canal transit, Puerto Quetzal, Lazaro Cardenas, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle and back to Vancouver. Priced at approx. EURO 100 per day.

Voyage 1525 – Far East from both coasts – Complete, round voyage is approximately 104 days. From Halifax to New York, Savannah, Kingston (Jamaica), Panama Canal transit, Los Angeles, Oakland, Shekou (China), Hong Kong, Ningbo (China), Shanghai, Balboa (Panama), Panama Canal transit, Kingston, Savannah, New York, Halifax, Tarragona (Spain) Haifa (Israel), Leghorn (Italy), Genoa (Italy), Tarragona, and back to Halifax. Priced from EURO 90 – 110 per day plus port taxes/fees.

Voyage 1190 – New York to West Coast of South America. Complete, round voyage is approximately 42 days. From New York to Baltimore, Charleston, Port Everglades, Cartagena, Manzanillo (Panama), Panama Canal transit, Guayaquil (Equador), Callao (Peru), San Antonio (Chile), San Vincente (Chile), San Antonio, Callao, Guayaquil, Panama Canal transit, Cartagena, Port Everglades, and back to New York. Priced from EURO 93 – 106 per day plus port taxes/fees.

MSC LAUSANNE NSB. Complete, round voyage is approximately 63 days. From Vancouver to Seattle, Oakland, Long Beach, Balboa, Panama Canal transit, Cristobal, Gioia Tauro, Naples, Civitavecchia, La Spezia, Valencia, Cristobal, Panama Canal transit, Balboa, Long Beach, Oakland, and back to Vancouver. Priced from EURO 90 – 110 per day plus port taxes/fees.

These voyages may also be available as shorter segments subject to availability and cabotage restrictions. Round voyages may be available from most of the listed ports. For more information and to request space, contact:
The Cruise People, Ltd.
416-900-0889        1-800-961-5536        freighters@rogers.com        facsimile – 1-888-759-2990