Note te ship name listed below in this excerpt from the web...You too can cruise on a potential terrorist nuclear threat.

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Round the World & Extended Voyages

Voyages of eight weeks (56 days) or more by modern cargo ships. Part voyages, one-way voyages and round trips with layover are possible on any of these routes. Please enquire.

1. Full Round the World Service

Senator Line - Orient Express

2.2. US East Coast / Med / Far East / Med / USA (91 days)

m/v CALIFORNIA SENATOR, m/v HONG KONG SENATOR, m/v IBN SINA, m/v LONDON SENATOR, m/v WASHINGTON SENATOR (1 Owners, 2 Doubles and 2 Single cabins, swimming pool, maximum 8 passengers); m/v PACIFIC SENATOR, m/v PALERMO SENATOR, mv PATMOS SENATOR, SHANGHAI SENATOR (2 Double cabins, swimming pool, maximum 4 passengers); m/v IBN ZAIDOUN (swimming pool, 6 passengers) - all about 40,000 dwt tons

Route: New York - Norfolk - Savannah - Valencia - La Spezia - Gioia Tauro - Suez - Jeddah - Khor Fakkan - Singapore - Busan - Kaohsiung - Hong Kong - Singapore - Suez - Gioia Tauro - La Spezia - Fos sur Mer - Valencia - New York. Note: One must book in advance in order to obtain summer space on this route!!

According to this link, the Palermo Senator is a freighter which has can accomodate four passengers (in two cabins). The ship was built in Germany, and has "German lead officers, Filipino, Kiribati and East Baltic crew."

Here's a map of the itinerary of the Palermo Senator and its sister ships (the group is called the "Orient Express"). Note the stops in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, China, Malaysia, Singapore, as well as ports in Europe, the U.S., and South Korea.

Route: New York - Norfolk - Savannah - Valencia - La Spezia - Gioia Tauro - Suez - Jeddah - Khor Fakkan - Singapore - Busan - Kaohsiung - Hong Kong - Singapore - Suez - Gioia Tauro - La Spezia - Fos sur Mer - Valencia - New York.

The route comes through Jeddah, which is south west Saudi Arbia, where most of the hijackers came from. Time to go on a long vacation, while Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld do what needs to be done.