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Passengers: 2 Deadweight: 64,132 tons Containers: 5,560 TEU Length: 272 m Speed: 24 knots Built: 2004/5 Officers /Crew: German/Int’l Owners: Hamburg Sud, German The Owner’s twin-bedded suite, consisting of a bedroom and sitting room with TV/DVD/Hi-fi, refrigerator and private facilities with shower, located on the Captain’s deck, front facing - €95 pp double, €117.50 per day, single occupancy. |
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Sailing every week or two as follows: Monte ships: Hamburg, Germany (Day 1); Antwerp, Belgium (2); Le Havre, France (3); Santos, Brazil (15); Buenos Aires, Argentina (19); Montevideo, Uruguay (21); Rio Grande (22), Santos, 2nd call (24), and Sepetiba, near Rio de Janeiro (26); Rotterdam, Holland (39); Tilbury, UK (40) and Hamburg (42). |
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| Allianca ships: Hamburg, Germany (Day1), Antwerp, Belgium (2), Lisbon, Portugal ( 4), Suape (13), Santos (17), Itajai (19), Santos, 2nd call (21), Rio de Janeiro, Itaguai or Sepetiba terminal (22) and Salvador (25), all in Brazil, Lisbon, 2nd call (35), Rotterdam, Holland (38), Tilbury, UK (40) and Hamburg (42). |
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Allianca Brasil, Europa and Cap Polonio |
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Passengers: 2 Deadweight: 33,216 tons Containers: 2,045 TEU Length: 200 m Speed: 20 knots Built: 1990/95 Officers /Crew: German/Int’l Owners: Hamburg Sud, German The Owner’s twin-bedded suite, consisting of a bedroom, sitting room and private facilities with shower, located one deck below Captain’s, front- and side-facing.- €90 pp double, €112.50 single occupancy, per day. |
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Passenger cabins and shared facilities, such as the dining room, lounges, exercise room and swimming pool are located on various decks. Passengers must be fully mobile and able to negotiate the stairs. Front views may be obstructed by the containers stowed on deck. |
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Self service laundry facilities are available. The electrical current is 220/50 AC. A two-prong round adapter and converter are needed for North American appliances. A steward will clean the cabin once a week, or more often if necessary. A small onboard shop provides a limited selection of beverages, cigarettes and toiletries at duty free prices. Onboard expenses may be paid for with cash in €/US$. Tipping is at the passenger’s discretion; $/€ 3-5 per person per day is recommended. Telephone, fax and email connections are available through the Captain’s office. The average port time is one day. |
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Reservations can be made by completing a Registration Form and providing a 25% deposit. The balance of the fare, plus an additional €255 (€405 when disembarking in Brazil) for port and vessel fees, is payable 65 days before departure. The fare may be paid for by check or wire (by exception only, credit cards may be accepted) in either the basic tariff currency, as quoted by the steamship line, or $US at the prevailing exchange rate, subject to a final adjustment at the time the ticket is issued, a few weeks before departure. Passports must be valid for at least 6 months beyond the anticipated return date, and a visa for Brazil must be obtained, depending on the citizenship and voyage. A Medical Statement of Good Health and International Health and Accident Insurance are required as well vaccination against yellow fever. The age limit is 75 on French ships, 79 on German. Cancellation fees are as follows: over 60 days, loss of deposit; 30-59 days, 50% of the fare. No refund will be made within 30 days of departure. To protect your investment, Cancellation and Interruption Insurance is highly recommended. Travelex Insurance packages, covering you from the moment you buy the policy - at no additional cost, are available to all our customers, worldwide, on our website page "Before You Sail". |
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On April 26, 1956, the converted tanker Ideal-X departed from New York carrying 58 aluminum truck bodies in frames installed atop its deck. Malcolm McLean, a former truck company owner, had determined that goods could be shipped less expensively if they were first loaded into standardized containers that could be loaded on ships, trucks, or trains. The rest, as they say, is history. It was a revolutionary idea in shipping and a huge business risk for McLean. He sold off the trucking firm it had taken him 20 years to build. By the time the vessel completed her first voyage at Houston six days later, McLean was taking orders to ship containers back north. Transoceanic shipping eventually followed, ushering in what observers call the biggest change in freight transport since steam engines replaced sails. It was an alternative to the ubiquitous "break-bulk" shipping, the costly, pilferage-prone method dramatized in On the Waterfront. |
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"Products that couldn’t be moved because of the export packaging damage and so forth now move freely throughout the world” said Paul F. Richardson, a shipping consultant who worked side by side with McLean for SeaLand's first 20 years. "It was a huge breakthrough” But the container revolution, like many efficiency-creating innovations, also spelled the end to countless well-paying jobs in shipping and manufacturing. "It used to be if you took a ship with five cargo holds, it would take two shifts a day of up to 20 longshoremen for a week to unload it," said Arthur Donovan, a former history professor at the Merchant Marine Academy on Long Island, NY, and co-author of The Box That Changed the World. Today, a comparable job would take about 10 hours with three or four container cranes, employing fewer than 20 workers, he said. |
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From the passengers point of view, containerships’ speed and efficiency, which create shorter time in ports, tends to be looked at negatively sometimes. However, voyages have become more dynamic, traveling longer distances and visiting a greater number of ports, yet with much higher on-time reliability. Events commemorating the containerization experience were held in the shipping industry as well as in various institutions including the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC. |
SeaLand's container operation,
including the ship, terminal and boxes,
from those first years.
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