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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > No, I'm not in the Navy: The Maritime Transportation Thread
 
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in a well actually
Jan 26, 2011

dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

ZombieLenin posted:

I've got two questions for you guys. So about a month ago my 70 year old mom (and corporate executive) comes to me and asks me, because I'm a socialist so obviously know these things, if I can find a cruise for her where "they treat their people okay."

In other words, my mom wants to go on a cruise, but since she pretends to be an ethical capitalist, she wants to spend extra money to go on a cruise where the crew are paid decently and aren't overworked.

She doesn't really care where it's too. She just wants go somewhere on a boat.

My brain tells me this means she's looking for a cruise line, or at least a cruise line with a few ships, that don't fly flags of convenience. So pretty much cruise ships flagged in first world countries. And since my interest in cruising is non-existent, but for my fascination with the Atlantic crossing and maritime history, my knowledge is limited to Cunard, who switched their flags from the UK to Bermuda a few years ago so that "they could have weddings" (yeah right).

This brings me to this here post. My two questions for you guys are:

1. Do you know of any cruise lines that currently operate non-FOC ships?
2. Baring this, is what cruise lines have the best reputation for treating their crews well?

I hear good things about National Geographic Lindblad cruises, but I don't know enough to confirm.

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in a well actually
Jan 26, 2011

dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Yeah, who knew it was so easy to militarize your merchant fleet and go bow to bow with the USN?
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dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

 Somebody elsewhere pointed out that the owner is still ahead because soybean prices are up significantly more than the cost to rent the ship since they’ve been idling (ignoring the new tariffs).

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