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I'm under the impression that passenger-liner ships basically don't exist after the airline industry killed them off? That those that do are long leisure cruises for rich boomers costing ten times an airline ticket. That COVID shut down spots on cargo ships, and cruise ships are definitely more expensive and don't tend to allow you to flee from the US to say Europe or anywhere specific but exploited parts of the third world around the US turned into vacation spots.
I have heard you can pay for a room on board if you are shipping stuff internationally. Never done it myself and I doubt it’s glamorous.
I saw a recent post from someone trying to get out via that route and the conclusion seemed to be that those trips have been suspended indefinitely since covid. They probably don't exist anymore or exist in such small quantities via such hoops and mazes that they might as well not.