Cruise news (crew-tagged)
- 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 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 pandemic hit the world in March 2020, Port Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canaries Spain) has been the refuge for numerous passenger ships...
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...
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