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Princess Anastasia ferry provides berthing amid Coronavirus outbreak at Novatek's Belokamenka yard
The cruiseferry Princess Anastasia arrived at a new shipyard facility outside Port Murmansk (Arctic Russia) in order to provide extra housing for...
May 8, 2020
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Emerald Princess returns to land after 2 months at sea
Hundreds of crew are stuck on a Princess Cruises ship waiting for approval to reach land again. The CDC has approved Emerald Princess to dock in...
May 8, 2020
Accidents
Sea Cloud Spirit delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic
The first new Sea Cloud ship in nearly 20 years, Sea Cloud Spirit, will enter service later than initially planned due to the COVID crisis. ...
May 7, 2020
Accidents
Thousands of stranded cruise ship crew finally allowed to disembark in the USA
Thousands of cruise ship employees are soon expected to disembark for the first time in months, after agreements between major cruise companies and...
May 7, 2020
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5000+ Filipino cruise ship crew to be tested for Coronavirus before disembarking in Manila
A Princess Cruises ship being investigated in Australia over Coronavirus infections entered The Philippines to repatriate its Filipino crew. The...
May 7, 2020
Accidents
Holland America and Princess Cruises cancel all 2020 itineraries in Europe, Alaska and Canada
On May 6, two of the Carnival Corporation-owned companies - Princess Cruises and HAL-Holland America Line - canceled all of their scheduled Summer...
May 7, 2020
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3 NCL-Norwegian cruise ships docked in Norfolk VA through June
Three NCL-Norwegian Cruise Line ships are currently docked at Portsmouth Marine Terminal (Norfolk VA USA) and will stay through the end of June 2020...
May 6, 2020
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Port Valencia to build a new cruise terminal
The Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) put out to tender the administrative concession for the construction and operation of the new passenger terminal...
May 6, 2020
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Marella Cruises commences summer 2020 programme in July with 3 ships
The UK's largest cruise company - Marella Cruises (owned by TUI Cruises UK), announced it will start passenger shipping operations in July with 3 of...
May 6, 2020
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Norwegian Cruise Line may go bankrupt?
NCLH-Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings announced there was “substantial doubt” about the ability of the company to continue amid the COVID...
May 6, 2020
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Carnival cancels all cruises in Alaska for 2020
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line announced on Monday, May 4, it will cancel the 2020 Alaskan cruise scheduled for the ship Carnival Spirit. The company's...
May 5, 2020
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Pacific Princess sails back to Honolulu Hawaii for provisions and fuel
Hawaii's Department of Transportation reported that the cruise ship Pacific Princess was scheduled to arrive at Honolulu Harbor on Tuesday, May...
May 5, 2020
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130 crew leave Coronavirus cruise ship Costa Atlantica in Nagasaki Japan
A group of nearly 130 Filipino and other crew left a CSSC-Carnival China-owned cruise ship docked in Japan for their home countries on Tuesday, May 5...
May 5, 2020
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Carnival Cruise Line resumes operations in August despite Coronavirus
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line announced plans to resume passenger shipping in August in spite of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement on Monday...
May 5, 2020
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RCI-Royal Caribbean fleetwide crew repatriation plan
In early-May 2020, RCI-Royal Caribbean developed a plan to repatriate the fleet's all non-essential crew by using 12x RCI liners - Adventure OTS...
May 4, 2020
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