I was booked for a Suez transit (Malta to Pot Klang, Malaysia) but the shipping line route ships direct from Savannah to Port Klang (long diversion) because fuel prices were so low in the latter half of 2015.
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Hoyaheel
Maybe large ships are not vulnerable to attack as small ships and don't require the stringent safety measures?....ked at before...
Really depends on how high open access points are from water level. The ones most easily hijacked are ships that sit low and go slow (such as oil tankers and bulk carriers).or cruise ships with low decks or other low entry points (such as marinas on the back of cruise ships). I noted that the stern of larger cruise ships where the sailors will throw out mooring lines- lowest open access point - are now caged in to make access there more difficult. They have to get up to main deck which is at least 30-40' above water. Large container ships are hard to hijack as the lowest entry point is still 40' above water line and can go fast too.
Now I wanna go see what other lines offer cruises through that area, if any of the mass markets are doing it. I typically see the mass markets who do Asia repo from Japan to Alaska but this isn't something I've loo
Quite a few luxury lines were doing this route this past spring: I counted at least 10 ships of which 2-3 were luxuries and premiums. May not be luxury but Ponant seems to do it eastbound in the summer. There's a Viking ship headed west in August this year and next, an Azamara in August, and a Silver Sea headed east next May..