Cruise news (crew-tagged)

AQSC-American Queen Steamboat Company may lay off 250 employees
The pandemic continues to create challenges for the tourism and hospitality industry, which also includes the USA's riverboat cruise ships...
August 1, 2020
Cruise Industry
Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on Hurtigruten's Roald Amundsen ship
4 crew members on Hurtigruten's ms Roald Amundsen have tested COVID-positive. The authorities in Tromso Norway are cooperating with the cruise...
July 31, 2020
Accidents
230 crew from Mauritius arrive in Genoa, Italy to board MSC Cruises ships
230 Mauritian crew, called to resume service onboard MSC Cruises ships at Port Genoa (Milan) Italy, left Mauritius on a charter flight on July 29...
July 30, 2020
Cruise Industry
21,000+ cruise ship crew repatriated through Bridgetown Barbados
Barbados moved 21,000+ stranded cruise ship crew members and some passengers over the past 3-4 months of the pandemic. The repatriations were...
July 26, 2020
Cruise Industry
10 AIDA Cruises crew test positive for COVID-19
Ten crew members of the Carnival Corporation-owned German company AIDA Cruises who were due to board the ships AIDAmar and AIDAblu in homeport...
July 25, 2020
Accidents
TUI Cruises cancels the first "Blue Cruise" on Mein Schiff 1
TUI Cruises restarts cruises with Mein Schiff 2 from Port Hamburg Germany on July 24. However, the first departure of Mein Schiff 1 (out of Kiel...
July 21, 2020
Cruise Industry
Crew repatriation efforts of Carnival Cruise Line near completion
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line is now in the final stages of repatriating its crew. 26,000+ crew were sent home from the CCL’s 26 ships. The...
July 18, 2020
Cruise Industry
Explorer Dream's crew test negative for COVID-19 and return onboard
Genting Cruise Lines (subsidiary of GHK-Genting Hong Kong Ltd) is the first large cruise company to restart voyages via the deployment of Explorer...
July 18, 2020
Cruise Industry
CDC extends No-Sail Order until September 30
On Thursday (July 16), Due to the ongoing pandemic, the US CDC agency (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) released a new, 20-page no-sail...
July 17, 2020
Accidents
Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas repatriates crew at Port St. Maarten
Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas is in port today, July 15, to repatriate her crew members. Independence of the Seas is the 2nd cruise...
July 15, 2020
Cruise Industry
CMV-Cruise and Maritime Voyages in talks with investors to stay afloat
The UK-based company CMV-Cruise and Maritime Voyages which was at the centre of a repatriation row involving hundreds of crew is in talks with...
July 15, 2020
Cruise Industry
Costa Cruises repatriates 200 Indonesian crew from Manila, Philippines
200 Indonesian crew members from Costa Cruises liners anchored off the coast of Manila (Luzon Island, Philippines) were repatriated Thursday evening...
July 11, 2020
Cruise Industry
Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady arrives at Fincantieri shipyard for routine maintenance
On Monday, July 6, Virgin Voyages' ship Scarlet Lady arrived at Port Genoa Italy, where she will spend the next 20 days at Fincantieri shipyard for...
July 7, 2020
Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean repatriates 95% of its crew
RCI-Royal Caribbean International announced on July 1 that it had repatriated 95% of its fleetwide crew. Vicki Freed (RCI's Senior VP of Sales and...
July 5, 2020
Cruise Industry
Costa Mediterranea completes crew repatriation in Manila Bay, Philippines
The last group of Costa Mediterranea's Italian crew members and supervisors was disembarked on Thursday, July 2. The Costa Cruises ship finally...
July 4, 2020
Cruise Industry