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Cruising on a Cargo Ship!Travelling on a cargo ship is an adventure. Why? You are never sure exactly which ports you will visit or how long you will be staying in each port. Of course you do have some idea of ports and times but any port can be changed and so can the length of time you stay at the port as everything is dependent on the cargo that is to be loaded and offloaded. If the ship is offered extra cargo it will of course accept the cargo and this means you will be longer in that port. We travelled on the Cape Don.
Ship Data for the fanatics:
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As you can see from the photo this is a geared container ship. One of the
wonderful things about this kind of ship is that it takes time to load and
unload the cargo, so the ship is usually in port longer than one day. Watching
the loading and unloading of the cargo was one of the highlights of the trip.