Cruise news (MSC Orchestra-tagged)
- Cruise Industry
MSC's winter 2022-2023 cruise program features the newbuild ships World Europa & Seascape
MSC Cruises’ 2022-2023 Winter lineup of voyages features 2 new ships: MSC World Europa and MSC Seascape. In total, the cruise line offers a...
February 4, 2022 - 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 - 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 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
MSC Cruises restarts in South Africa on December 6 from Durban
The world's 3rd-largest cruise shipowner MSC restarts South African operations on December 6th from homeport Durban. The green light followed...
October 23, 2021 - Accidents
MSC cancels 2021-2022 cruise season to Uruguay and Argentina
The world's 3rd-largest cruise company MSC announced the cancellation of its South America 2021-2022 winter program based on homeporting in Argentina...
October 6, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Scrubbers installed on 3rd MSC Cruises’ ship, MSC Musica in Brindisi, Italy
Chantiers de l'Atlantique (St-Nazaire /fka STX France) completed the installation of an EGCS (exhaust gas cleaning system/aka scrubbers) on the MSC...
July 23, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises' ship MSC Bellissima to sail 21 Red Sea voyages from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
MSC announced that its Bellissima ship, one of the fleet’s most modern liners, will sail a total of 21 Red Sea voyages from the commercial hub...
July 13, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC with the industry's largest air charter/fly-cruise program for summer 2021
MSC Cruises announced that it had chartered the industry-largest air charter (fly-cruise) program for summer 2021 to make more homeports (embarkation...
June 20, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises' ship MSC Splendida welcomes back passengers with a 4-country Eastern Mediterranean...
Over the weekend, MSC Splendida became the latest MSC Cruises' liner to restart summer sailings with a 7-night itinerary to the Eastern Mediterranean...
June 15, 2021 - Cruise Industry
3 cruise ships scheduled to call in Venice, Italy this month
This month 3 cruise ships are scheduled for regular calls at Port Venice Italy. The return of the liners after a 17-month ban saw the first vessel...
June 13, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Cruise ships are back in Venice, bringing environmental protests
Saturday, June 5, saw the first cruise ship depart Venice Italy after nearly one and a half years' suspension because of the pandemic, reinflaming...
June 6, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC restarts Baltic cruises from Germany on July 3 with MSC Seaview ship
MSC Cruises announced it would restart its operations in Germany on July 3 with its first-ever deployment of a Seaside class ship to operate in the...
May 22, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises launches new and updated European and Mediterranean itineraries for Summer 2021
The world's largest family-owned cruise company MSC announced new and updated itineraries in Europe and the Mediterranean for this coming summer...
April 16, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises introduces Summer 2022 programme
The family-owned company MSC Cruises announced details of its Summer 2022 program with sales now open for voyages in the Caribbean and Mediterranean...
December 18, 2020