Cruise news (crew-tagged)
- 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...
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 - Cruise Industry
RCI-Royal Caribbean International again hiring crew from India
Starting May 21, RCI-Royal Caribbean International will again hire crew members from India. The news comes a couple of weeks after the line...
May 10, 2021 - Cruise Industry
NCLH-Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings suspending crew assignments "from areas of high Covid-19...
NCLH-Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings announced it is temporarily suspending all assignments for its crew members from India, Brazil, Argentina, Chile...
May 6, 2021 - Cruise Industry
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line, RCI-Royal Caribbean International, MSC Cruises vaccinate all crew
Following the recent announcement by the USA's CDC agency (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) that cruises could resume from US seaports by...
May 3, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Port Canaveral first cruise port in the USA to sponsor COVID-19 vaccinations for seafarers
Port Canaveral is the first port in the United States to support COVID-19 vaccine distribution to vessel crew members and port workers in response to...
May 2, 2021 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises announces fleetwide COVID-19 vaccination for all crew
MSC Cruises announced a fleetwide COVID-19 vaccination program for all crew members. The programme has already started on Friday, April 30, on the...
May 1, 2021 - Accidents
RCI-Royal Caribbean cancels all assignments for Indian crew
Indian crew will not be able to board RCI-Royal Caribbean International cruise ships at this stage after the company decided to temporarily cancel...
April 24, 2021 - Accidents
Crew commits suicide aboard RCI-Royal Caribbean ship Odyssey of the Seas
On Thursday afternoon, April 22, the Coast Guard suspended its search for a missing crew who went overboard the RCI-Royal Caribbean cruise ship...
April 23, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Cruises' ship Viking Orion collects crew in Bodrum, Turkey
Viking Ocean's ship Viking Orion arrived in Port Bodrum Turkey on April 18, to collect crew and supplies as part of preparations for the upcoming...
April 19, 2021 - Cruise Industry
700 crew join Royal Caribbean's ship Odyssey of the Seas in Limassol, Cyprus
RCI-Royal Caribbean International's newest Quantum Ultra Class ship Odyssey of the Seas arrived in Port Limassol Cyprus to collect its crew ahead of...
April 19, 2021 - Accidents
Injured crew medevaced from MSC Cruises' ship MSC Lirica in Corfu, Greece
A 44-year-old electrician, crew member on MSC Cruises' ship MSC Lirica, has been injured on Wednesday, April 7, while trying to change a cooling...
April 11, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Riviera River Cruises requires full COVID-19 vaccination or negative test
UK-based company Riviera River Cruises - Scylla's main riverboat charterer - announced that all passengers boarding its ships when European river...
April 8, 2021 - Cruise Industry
COVID-19 vaccine required for all Virgin Voyages' passengers and crew
Tom McAlpin (Virgin Voyages' President and CEO) announced today that the company would require all of its passengers (Sailors) and crew to be fully...
March 16, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Port Bodrum Turkey welcomes 2021's first cruise ship
Turkey welcomed the first cruise ship of season 2021 in a development that comes after the COVID restrictions brought travel to a halt. Viking Ocean...
March 15, 2021