Cruise news (MSC Cruises-tagged)
- Cruise Industry
3 MSC Cruises ships anchored off Copacabana beach for Rio de Janeiro's New Year's Eve fireworks
The 3 MSC Cruises ships deployed in Brazil for winter season 2021-2022 will be all anchored off Copacabana Beach on New Year's Eve for the fireworks...
December 30, 2021 - Accidents
Costa Diadema and MSC Splendida hit by COVID in Brazil
Two large cruise liners reported COVID outbreaks during their latest sailings in Brazil (South America). Costa Cruises' Costa Diadema (scheduled to...
December 29, 2021 - Accidents
28 vaccinated crew and passengers test COVID-positive on cruise ship MSC Seashore
MSC Cruises' flagship MSC Seashore arrived on Thursday, December 23, in PortMiami Florida with dozens of COVID-positive crew and passengers. In a...
December 24, 2021 - Accidents
15-year-old kid takes his own life on MSC Seashore ship
Authorities are investigating a suicide aboard an MSC Cruises ship. The cruise company confirmed that a 15-year-old boy traveling with his family...
December 24, 2021 - Accidents
MSC Cruises cancels Northern Europe voyages on MSC Magnifica through January 14
MSC Cruises canceled the 7-night Northern Europe sailings onboard MSC Magnifica through January 14. The reason for the cancellations is the...
December 23, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises to deploy MSC Lirica to the Eastern Mediterranean in summer 2022
MSC Cruises announced it would deploy MSC Lirica to the Eastern Mediterranean in summer 2022. The liner will homeport in Piraeus-Athens during the...
December 21, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Malaga (Spain) to be an embarkation port for MSC Cruises' ship MSC Orchestra during summer 2022
MSC Cruises announced that Malaga (Spain Granada) will be the homeport (for embarkation) in summer 2022 for a new 10-night (11-day) Western...
December 20, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Seashore is the first-ever cruise ship to dock at Dominicana's new cruise port Taino Bay
MSC's cruise ship MSC Seashore became the first-ever to enter Dominicana's new cruise port Taino Bay. The 2021-built vessel, which started sailing...
December 19, 2021 - 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