I want to go from New York City to any destination in Europe on a freighter. The only place I've found information for doing this requires a round trip. I don't want to go round trip. I want to spend some months in Europe and I don't care where…
Some time ago I heard someone telling about travelling in cargo planes. Apparently some of those planes have a limited amount of extra seats and companies would sell them for an extra profit.
Does anyone have any information about this? Is that…
Planning a low budget and environment friendly trip to Iceland from Helsinki, Finland next summer for me and my friend. Haven't been able to find relevant information on possibility for cargo travel (from where - eg. Norway, Denmark? - timetables,…
Walking past a huge international shipyard twice today got me thinking about freighter travel. We have a couple of such questions on the site, but not many.
Many people are surprised when they find out that freighter travel is often more expensive…
Before 2020, a small number of companies would offer a small number of passenger seats on freighters, including on transatlantic and transpacific routes. Have any returned post-pandemic or are they all permanently defunct? As of…
When I began to research travel by freight boat, I was hoping it would be a cheap alternative to air travel, but it turns out you can expect to pay US$80-140 per day and voyages are often five days or even longer.
However, I'm curious whether…
In my previous question I pointed out that there is a very large Korean shipyard on the southern Black Sea coast of Romania.
This made me wonder if there might be any chance of hopping aboard a freighter from Mangalia, Romania to South Korea (I…
If I am on a cargo ship that docks in a foreign country, like Brazil for example, but I do not come ashore and do not intend to come ashore will customs still board and demand passports and visas for all passengers and crew?
I am assuming the ship…
I would like to go from Europe to Boston by boat coming June. I am willing to work on the boat in exchange for travelling for a reduced or gratis fee, although I have no experiences working on ships. I have a German passport.
Can anyone based on his…
I'm planning to travel from India (Bombay/Mumbai) to USA on ship.
I'm a newbie and I don't know anything about freighter travel. I just want to know what are the possible ways of travel and also the respective time taken for the journey.
I need to…
There are plenty of Trans-Atlantic freighters that carry passengers; perhaps it's the most popular crossing for freighter travel. Some are listed at freightercruises.com or freighter-travel.com. I've also found some north-west passage freighters,…
I would like to know how many day will it take to get US from South Korea. Before asking, I check in google and other websites. But, I didn't find any answers. Could anyone guess me how many days it would take roughly to get US from South Korea.
I want to travel to the USA by cargo ship from either Portugal or Spain.
Is it possible?
How much does it cost?
Is it possible that I can also have any job on the cargo ship while travelling to the USA, so that my travelling expenses can be…
We are planning to shift to Canada. We have a pug named Leo who cannot go by plane as brachycephalic dog breeds are not permitted to travel by most airlines. We cannot leave him behind so the only option is to travel by ship from India to Canada.…
How to hitchhike on a cargo ship from India to say somewhere like Africa or Mediterranean? What will be the requirements and cost to travel alone? Is this possible at all?
