Cruise news (crew-tagged)
- Accidents
8 COVID-positive crew on Royal Caribbean's ship Odyssey of the Seas
8 crew members aboard RCI-Royal Caribbean’s ship Odyssey of the Seas tested positive for COVID-19, chief executive Michael Bayley wrote in a...
June 16, 2021 - Cruise Industry
400 Indian crew join Royal Caribbean's ship Symphony OTS in PortMiami on June 22
RCI-Royal Caribbean continues with crewing up its cruise ships for the upcoming season. With the latest announcement of the line's gradual restart...
June 13, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean's Odyssey OTS ship docks at Port Everglades/Fort Lauderdale Florida
RCI-Royal Caribbean’s ship Odyssey of the Seas pulled into her homeport, Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades, Florida), Thursday morning (June 10...
June 12, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Princess Cruises introduces CrewCall (on-demand service) on MedallionClass ships
Princess Cruises introduced a new on-demand service that allows passengers to call a crew to their location to make "an in-person request for...
June 11, 2021 - Accidents
Crew medevaced from Carnival Dream cruise ship in Funchal, Madeira
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line's ship Carnival Dream was forced to make a detour during her Transatlantic repositioning voyage from Miami Florida to...
June 8, 2021 - Accidents
27-year-old AIDAblu crew disembarked at Corfu, Greece for medical treatment
On Sunday, June 6, a 27-year-old male crew of AIDA Cruises' ship AIDAblu who needed medical treatment was disembarked at Corfu Island (Kerkyra...
June 8, 2021 - Accidents
Greek islands ferry services disrupted due to seamen’s union strike
Ferry services to the Greek islands have been disrupted Thursday morning, June 3, after a seamen’s union went ahead with a strike that the...
June 3, 2021 - Accidents
Crew medevaced from NCL-Norwegian Cruise Line's ship Norwegian jade
A 53-year-old male crew of the NCL-Norwegian Cruise Line's ship Norwegian Jade has been medically evacuated off Chania (Crete Island, Greece) and...
June 2, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Celebrity Cruises to be the first line to restrat from the USA with Celebrity Edge
Celebrity Cruises announced that they would be the first company to restart voyages with passengers leaving from the USA, with the Celebrity Edge...
May 27, 2021 - Accidents
2 crew test COVID-positive aboard Royal Caribbean's cruise ship Odyssey of the Seas
RCI-Royal Caribbean's ship Odyssey of the Seas arrived at Port Palma de Mallorca (Majorca Island, Balearic Spain) Monday morning, May 24, as there...
May 24, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Cruises' ship Viking Orion to complete 14-day quarantine in Bermuda
Viking OCEAN's cruise ship Viking Orion anchored on Friday, May 21, to complete quarantine before the homeporting in Bermuda. According to Bermuda's...
May 22, 2021 - Cruise Industry
~30 cruise ships laid up in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands since March 2020
Since the Coronaviruscrisis hit the world in March 2020, Port Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canaries Spain) has been the refuge for numerous passenger...
May 16, 2021 - Cruise Industry
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Sensation arrives in Mobile, Alabama for the first time
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line's ship Carnival Sensation arrived in Mobile Alabama Friday morning, May 14, for the first time, with spectators lining up on...
May 15, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises officially starts crew vaccination program in the USA
MSC Cruises officially started its crew vaccination program in the U.S. On May 7, crew from the MSC Meraviglia ship received their first COVID-19...
May 11, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Ocean's cruise ship Viking Venus arrives at Portsmouth Port UK
Viking Cruises' ocean ship Viking Venus, which features an onboard laboratory that has daily capacity to process 3000 COVID tests, arrived at...
May 11, 2021