Cruise news (MSC Magnifica-tagged)

MSC Cruises resumes operations in the Mediterranean starting August 16
MSC Cruises announced that flagship MSC Grandiosa and MSC Magnifica are due to resume operations in the Mediterranean starting from August 16 and 29...
August 9, 2020
Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises introduces winter 2020-2021 programme
MSC Cruises confirmed full details of its winter 2020-2021 season, featuring more than 90 different itineraries across the Mediterranean, Caribbean...
June 23, 2020
Cruise Industry
The world's last cruise liner still carrying passengers sails back home
MSC Magnifica pulled into her final port of call - Marseille France - to disembark 1700+ passengers from Monday, April 20, onward. The world voyage...
April 20, 2020
Cruise Industry
More than 70 Coronavirus cases on the Phoenix Reisen Artania ship
More than 70 cruise passengers and crew members onboard the Artania ship in Fremantle are suspected of being infected with Coronavirus (COVID-19...
March 28, 2020
Accidents
Coronavirus cruise ship passengers quarantined on Rottnest Island, Western Australia
WA Premier Mark McGowan is currently "exercising the Rottnest option" to quarantine Australian cruise passengers set to disembark in Fremantle (Perth...
March 25, 2020
Accidents
No Coronavirus cases on Magnifica ship according to MSC Cruises
MSC Cruises, the owner of MSC Magnifica ship sailing off Western Australia's coast, said there were no passengers onboard with respiratory diseases...
March 23, 2020
Accidents
More Than 1,000 Passengers Stuck on MSC Cruises Ship at Hobart
All passengers and crew are currently blocked on a cruise ship docked at Port Hobart Tasmania over Coronavirus (COVID-19) fears. About 1400...
March 14, 2020
Accidents
Flooding in Venice Causes Cruise Ship Itinerary Changes
Record flooding in Venice Italy is still wreaking havoc all over the port city, also preventing cruise liners from docking in downtown. NCL's...
November 17, 2019
Cruise Industry
Stretched MSC Magnifica to Offer 24 Cruises from Southampton
MSC Cruises revealed it will bring the liner MSC Magnifica to Southampton UK in 2021 for an entire homeporting season after ship's extensive drydock...
September 11, 2019
Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises Offers Longer Shore Excursions During World Cruise
MSC Cruises announced a selection of longer shore trips for passengers during line's first-ever World Cruise, embarking January 5, 2019 onboard MSC...
October 26, 2018
Cruise Industry
Norwegian and MSC Cruise Ships Reveal Wollongong Visits
Just a couple of months before the return of the first cruise ship to ever visit Wollongong there is another good news for the port city as a cruise...
December 2, 2017
Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises Launches 2020 World Cruise Aboard Magnifica
MSC Cruises announced the opening of sales of its 2nd world cruise, setting sail 2020. Sales for MSC Voyagers Club members opened yesterday, October...
October 24, 2017
Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises Unveils New Deals on Family Cruises for 2018
MSC Cruises unveiled new deals for 2018, and it is going to make it cheaper than ever for kids to come along with their parents. Under the new...
August 5, 2017
Cruise Industry
Body Discovered in Suitcase NOT That of Missing Cruise Mum
Authorities confirmed the body found in a suitcase in the Italian port of Rimini was not the Dublin-based mum who went missing during a...
March 28, 2017
Accidents
Body Discovered in Suitcase in Rimini Port That of Missing Cruise Mum?
Italian police are investigating if a body that was discovered in a suitcase in the Italian port of Rimini is that of missing woman Li Yinglei...
March 27, 2017
Accidents