Cruise news (virus-tagged)
- Accidents
2 Coronavirus crew on Royal Caribbean's newest cruise ship Odyssey of the Seas
Two employees on Royal Caribbean's newest ship - Odyssey of the Seas have tested COVID positive. According to a spokesman for the shipbuilder...
March 7, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Saga extends cruise suspension until June 27
Saga UK has written to its Cruise and Holidays guests in order to inform them of the company's decision to extend the current suspension of travel...
March 5, 2021 - Accidents
Manslaughter allegations against Costa Cruises over Coronavirus deaths
French investigators are opening manslaughter allegations against the Carnival Corporation-owned Italian company Costa over Coronavirus deaths. The...
February 24, 2021 - Accidents
Coronavirus passenger on MSC Cruises' ship Grandiosa
Tuesday night, February 16, a positive COVID passenger was detected on the MSC Cruises' liner MSC Grandiosa sailing in the Western Mediterranean. As...
February 18, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Costa's Savona Cruise Terminal turned into Covid vaccination site
Costa Cruises' passenger terminal Palacrociere (in Port Savona Italy) now serves as a Coronavirus/COVID vaccination site for elderly people (aged 80...
February 15, 2021 - Cruise Industry
USA's CDC requires masks for all cruise ship passengers and crew
The industry adopted face masks for cruise passengers as policy months ago. The USA's CDC agency issued an order going into effect on February 1...
February 1, 2021 - Accidents
2nd COVID-19 case confirmed on Marine Atlantic's Blue Puttees ferry
Canadian federal (state-owned) corporation Marine Atlantic announced on Thursday, January 21, that a second crew had tested COVID-positive after a...
January 22, 2021 - Cruise Industry
The last ferry to link Flanders and England sets sail on the final voyage of a 46-year-long history
On December 29 was terminated the ferry service linking Flanders (northern Belgium) with England. The last crossing (from Zeebrugge-Bruges Belgium...
January 3, 2021 - Accidents
6 crew with Coronavirus on Stena Line's cruiseferry Stena Edda
322 passengers were stranded overnight in Birkenhead (a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England) after 6 crew tested COVID...
December 19, 2020 - Accidents
Coronavirus-positive passenger on Royal Caribbean's Quantum OTS tests negative after disembarkation
An elderly passenger found to have COVID-19 on a RCI-Royal Caribbean International ship has since tested COVID-negative in two further tests, hours...
December 10, 2020 - Accidents
Coronavirus-positive passenger on Royal Caribbean's ship Quantum of the Seas
A passenger onboard Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas ship tested COVID-positive during a Cruise to Nowhere from Singapore (seasonal homeport...
December 9, 2020 - Cruise Industry
P&O Cruises extends pause in operations into April 2021
P&O Cruises UK extended the pause in operations into April 2021 due to the current uncertainty around ports of call in Europe. P&O UK's...
November 24, 2020 - Accidents
SeaDream Yacht Club cancels all 2020 Caribbean cruises due to Coronavirus
The ultra-luxury brand SeaDream Yacht Club announced it had decided to cancel all voyages for the remainder of 2020 after COVID-positive test results...
November 17, 2020 - Cruise Industry
US Democrats ask CDC to resume its no-sail order on ship cruises
Two US Democrats asked the CDC agency's Director (Robert Redfield) to resume the "no-sail" order for cruise shipping on Friday, November 13, after a...
November 15, 2020 - Accidents
7 cruise passengers "assumptive positive" for Coronavirus on superyacht SeaDream I
The top-luxury superyacht SeaDream 1 canceled its current Caribbean cruise and returned to homeport Bridgetown Barbados after passengers’ tests...
November 13, 2020