Cruise news (MSC Cruises-tagged)
- Cruise Industry
Booster vaccination necessary for cruise passengers going ashore in France
France is the first European country to require a booster shot against COVID for cruise tourists who want to disembark in French ports. Starting...
December 14, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Lirica ship to be homeported in Piraeus-Athens (Greece) in summer 2022 summer
MSC Cruises announced it would deploy MSC Lirica to the Eastern Mediterranean for the 2022 summer season, homeporting at Piraeus-Athens (Greece) for...
December 13, 2021 - Cruise Industry
6 MSC Cruises ships deployed to South America for the 2022-2023 season
MSC Cruises opened sales for ist South America 2022-2023 season (November-April). The company announced that the program is based on MSC Seashore...
December 12, 2021 - Accidents
MSC Cruises temporarily suspends all domestic voyages in South Africa
MSC Cruises announced on Friday, December 10, it had voluntarily suspended all domestic voyages in South Africa with immediate effect until January 8...
December 11, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises testing fuel cells on its newest ship MSC World Europa
The French shipbuilder Chantiers de l'Atlantique (fka STX France) and MSC recently celebrated the float of World Europa and the keel-laying of...
December 5, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC World Europa floated out. Keel laid for MSC Euribia
On December 2nd, the French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique and MSC Cruises celebrated two milestones for the company’s newest...
December 4, 2021 - Cruise Industry
RCI-Royal Caribbean takes “wait-and-see” approach on mandatory COVID vaccines for kids
While Celebrity and DCL-Disney will soon require passengers ages 5-11 to be fully vaccinated, RCI-Royal Caribbean International is taking a...
December 4, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Virtuosa returns for MSC Cruises' biggest ever UK season
MSC Cruises revealed it would bring MSC Virtuosa back to homeport Southampton (England UK) in summer 2022 before the company deploys another liner...
December 2, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Orchestra heading to Durban (South Africa) despite COVID's Omicron variant
MSC Cruises is going ahead with South African itineraries, despite travel bans in the country due to the COVID Omicron variant. MSC Orchestra is...
December 1, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Sophia Loren christens MSC Cruises' new flagship MSC Virtuosa in Dubai
MSC Cruises on Saturday, November 27, celebrated the christening in Dubai (Port Rashid-Dubai Harbour, UAE) of its new flagship, MSC Virtuosa, just...
November 29, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises to accept only fully vaccinated passengers for the winter sailings
The world's 3rd-largest cruise shipping company MSC announced it will accept only fully vaccinated passengers for winter 2021-2022 season fleetwide...
November 26, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Celestyal Cruises (Greece) allows passengers fully vaccinated with Russia's Sputnik V COVID vaccine
The Greek company Celestyal Cruises will allow fully vaccinated passengers with the Russian "Sputnik V" COVID vaccine to board the ships. Starting...
November 24, 2021 - Cruise Industry
VIDEO: Sophia Loren names MSC SEASHORE at Ocean Cay Island (Bahamas)
MSC Cruises celebrated the official naming of its newest liner - MSC Seashore, which is also the largest cruise ship built in Italy. The christening...
November 20, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Seascape floated out, sistership MSC Seashore named at Ocean Cay Bahamas
MSC Cruises on Thursday (November 18) celebrated the float out of the line's next flagship MSC Seascape at Fincantieri's Monfalcone shipyard (near...
November 18, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises’ 13th ship, MSC Fantasia, restarts in the Mediterranean
MSC Cruises’ 13th ship to resume operations since the cruise industry’s pause in March 2020 as a result of the COVID crisis set sail on...
November 9, 2021