For ye Landlubbers

It is recommended to send international mail at least two weeks in advance preferably via courier. Do not send currency, food or medicine. Sending packages is not recommended because of customs restrictions and/or duty charges (as a result, packages are not always received by the intended recipient on board). ISE is not responsible for any mail not delivered to the recipient. The port agent in each country is able return it to the sender at the sender’s own cost. Please address mail to participants as follows: (copied from Semester at Sea web page)

MV Explorer – Spring 2009 Voyage
Attn: Catherine B. Groover
Port Agent Address (from list below)

+ Port: Cadiz, SPAIN

Address of port agent:
Perez Y CIA S.L.
C/ Ecuador, 2
11007 Cadiz, SPAIN

Suggested airmail date: Jan 14
Phone: 34 956 276 112
Fax: 34 956 276 766

+ Port: Casablanca, MOROCCO

Address of port agent:
LASRY MAROC S.A.
Avenue des Far
20000 Casablanca, MAROC

Suggested airmail date: Jan 18th
Phone: 212 61 29 8894
Fax: 212 22 484793

+ Port: Walvis Bay, NAMIBIA

Address of port agent:
OCEAN LINER SERVICES
The Maritime Building
2 Third Street / PO Box 4
Walvis Bay, REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA

Suggested airmail date: Jan 31
Phone: 264 64 201 2200
Fax: n/a

+ Port: Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA

Address of port agent:
JOHN T. RENNIE & SONS
19th Floor
No.1 Thibault Square
8001 Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA

Suggested Airmail date: Feb 4
Phone: 27 21 419 8660
Fax: 27 21 413 0290

+ Port: Louis, MAURITIUS

Address of port agent:
Ireland Blyth Limited
Shipping Operations Department
No 6 Dr Ferriere Street
Port Louis, MAURITIUS

Suggested airmail date: Feb 13
Phone: 230 202 70 40
Fax: 230 208 5814

+ Port: Chennai, INDIA

Address of port agent:
J. M. Baxi & Co.
3rd Floor, Clive Battery Complex
4 & 4A, Rajaji Salai
Chennai 600 001, INDIA

Suggested airmail date: Feb 19
Phone: 91 44 252 12032
Fax: 91 44 252 43813

+ Port: Bangkok, THAILAND

Address of port agent:
19 OIA GLOBAL LOGISTICS (THAILAND) Ltd
1168 / 20 - 4th Floor
Lumpini Tower Rama 4 Road
Thungmahamek, Sathorn
BANGKOK 10120, THAILAND

Suggested airmail date: Feb 27
Phone: 66 2 285 6880
Fax: 66 2 285 6686

+ Port: Ho Chi Minh City, VIETNAM

Address of port agent:
General Forwarding Agency
5th Floor Osic Building
8 Nguyen Hue Avenue
D. 1, Ho Chi Minh City, VIETNAM

Suggested airmail date: March 6
Phone: 84 8 825 7996
Fax: 84 8 824 2996

+ Port: HONG KONG


Address of port agent:
Inchcape Shipping Services (HK) Ltd.
Units 1802-1805, 18th Floor
N° 3 Lockhart Road
Wanchai, HONG KONG – CHINA

Suggested airmail date: March 13
Phone: 852 2786 1155
Fax: 852 2744 3240

+ Port: Shanghai, CHINA

Address of port agent:
Penavico Shanghai
3/F 13 Zhong Shan Road (E 1)
Shanghai 200002, P.R. CHINA

Suggested airmail date: March 19
Phone: 86 21 6323 1350
Fax: 86 21 6329 1519

+ Port: Kobe, JAPAN

Address of port agent:
Inchcape Shipping Services (Japan) Ltd.
Kenryu Bldg, Room 502
6, Kaigan-dori, Chuo-ku
Kobe-shi, Hygo-ken 650-0024, JAPAN

Suggested airmail date: March 23
Phone: 81 78 391 3046
Fax: 81 78 391 3105

+ Port: Yokohama, JAPAN

Address of port agent:
INCHCAPE SHIPPING SERVICES
2F Asahi Seimei Yokohama Honcho Bldg
36, 4-Chome Honcho, Naka-ku
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 231-0005, JAPAN

Suggested airmail date: March 26
Phone: 81 45.201 6991
Fax: 81 45.212 1614

+Port: Honolulu, HAWAII

Address of port agent:
Inchcape Shipping Services
521 Ala Moana Blvd.
Suite 256
Honolulu, HI 96813

Suggested airmail date: April 3
Phone: 1 808 599 8604
Fax: 1 808 599 1950

+Port: Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala

Address of port agent:
Transoceanicas S.A.
Modulo #208
Nuevo Edificio de Servicios Auxiliares II
Puerto Quetzal, Escuintla, GUATEMALA, C.A.

Suggested airmail date: April 14
Phone: 502 7881 2325
Fax: 502 7881 1319