Travelling on board cargo vessels as a seafarer’s wife is a wonderful and challenging way of life. It requires a lot of strength, courage and commitment from woman’s side (apart from company approval), and it implies many changes and adjustments. She has to give up her safe, peaceful and comfortable life ashore in order to […]
Crossing the Line or Equator Crossing ceremony (Baptism ceremony) commemorates a seafarer’s first crossing of the Equator and it is a very important event in any seamen’s career, regardless the type of vessel he/she is working on.Seafarers – especially when they are far from their homes and families -are full of superstitions and the need to […]
The first voyages on board cargo vessels started in the ’70 when people could also ‘work their way’ across the oceans without paying anything, but working a little in exchange. ‘Work your way’ across the sea is not allowed anymore, but more and more people choose to travel on board port container vessels nowadays as […]