Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
Difference is, you may not be able to get off the ship, and the airlines don't keep charging you the extra time you are onboard. The Hanjin ships are just anchored off shore as no ports want to take them in case they don't get paid.
Certainly freighter cruising wouldn't be for everyone. Less adventuresome fusspots who fret about the unlikely event that the line goes broke would be well advised to stick with major market lines where they can embrace the "cruise culture," wave their napkins over their heads as the baked Alaska is marched in and smuggle liquor on board like they did going to a high-school sock hop.