Cargo Ship Life With Merchant Mariner Gabby Salazar

You’ve likely seen all the cargo ships waiting to unload off the Port of LA but have you wondered what life is like onboard those ships? 

Gabby Salazar has amassed thousands and thousands of followers on Tiktok simply by showing what her life has been like since becoming a merchant mariner onboard ships like Maersk. 

In our interview, she tells us all the little things that are done before, during, and after a ship has been unloaded, where some of the most beautiful ports she’s visited and that time her boss made her walk the plank. 

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Blythe (Brumleve) Milligan
Blythe (Brumleve) Milligan
Creative entrepreneur in logistics. Founder of Digital Dispatch, CargoRex, and host of Everything is Logistics. Co-Founder at Jax Podcasters Unite. Previously: Board member of Transportation Marketing and Sales Association, Freightwaves on-air personality. Annoying Jaguars fan.

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