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CMV head of marketing Mike Hall said one enterprising client has booked a voyage from Tilbury to Australia on the company’s ship Astor and a world cruise sector from Singapore back to Tilbury on Magellan. CMV’s world cruise departs


Tilbury on January 5, 2017, and follows a westbound route through the Caribbean, Panama Canal and South Pacific to Australia and New Zealand, heading back to the UK through Asia, the Suez Canal and Mediterranean. Prices start from £8,999 for 120 nights; solo travellers pay a 25% supplement.


w JANUARY DEPARTURES While ships have changed a lot since 1922, when Cunard’s Laconia made history by steaming around the world, some things are the same. As in Laconia’s days, world cruises depart in January and last up to four months. Also then, as now, passengers


faced a lot of days at sea as the ship steamed between


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Sector sailings are ideal for those who want to experience the ambience of a world cruise


continents. To avoid that, Seabourn has now given up on world cruising and instead offers long sailings that focus on specific parts of the world. In 2017, for instance, Seabourn Sojourn will sail an 89-day voyage around the North Pacific from Singapore to Seattle with multiples calls in Japan and China. It is priced from £38,499 cruise-only departing March 4. Itineraries have also evolved


over the years. Cunard’s Queen Victoria, for instance, will make history on its 2017 world cruise, a 120-night voyage round-trip


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