{"id":13246,"date":"2015-11-04T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13246"},"modified":"2015-11-03T20:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T01:01:54","slug":"when-cargo-ships-and-cruise-ships-intersect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/when-cargo-ships-and-cruise-ships-intersect\/","title":{"rendered":"When Cargo Ships And Cruise Ships Intersect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/110415_0059_WhenCargoSh1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are cruise ships and there are cargo ships. Angus Whitley and Kyunghee Park wrote about the weird practice of the two overlapping:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As the global economy slows freight prices have fallen.<\/li>\n<li>Cargo ships have taken to selling living space to paying passengers.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike in a proper cruise ship there are no fancy amenities, no internet, and no wait staff. Passengers are expected to keep their own rooms clean.<\/li>\n<li>Passengers do get to talk to the captain and crew whenever they can find them and can enjoy the solitude of the open seas.<\/li>\n<li>Trips can last as long as 110 nonstop days from Europe to Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Passengers pay about $115 a day for the room as well as meals with the crew.<\/li>\n<li>Plan to book in advance. Demand outstrips supply and there&#8217;s a several months long waiting list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the experience, the type of people who go for the deal, and other details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-10-28\/travelers-are-taking-no-frills-cruises-on-ocean-freighters\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-10-28\/travelers-are-taking-no-frills-cruises-on-ocean-freighters\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/10\/cargo-cruise-markets-in-everything.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are cruise ships and there are cargo ships. Angus Whitley and Kyunghee Park wrote about the weird practice of the two overlapping: As the global economy slows freight prices have fallen. Cargo ships have taken to selling living space to paying passengers. Unlike in a proper cruise ship there are no fancy amenities, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/110415_0059_WhenCargoSh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13249,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions\/13249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}