Tag: cruise ships

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, DNV GL along with Singapore Tourism Board (STB) shake hands and developed a compliance audit and certification programme for cruises sailing from the port of Singapore.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the major disruption that has brought within cruising, Viking Line completed installation of the first full-scale PCR laboratory at sea.

Cruise Lines International Association members announced that they will maintain the voluntary suspension of cruise ship operations in the U.S. through the end of the year.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new Framework for Conditional Sailing Order that introduces a phased approach for the resumption of passenger cruises in US waters.

The cruise ship ''Le Jacques Cartier'' has been given permission to leave Sicily after 13 people onboard tested positive for COVID-19.

The resurgence of COVID-19 in Europe and the subsequent measures applied have forced major cruise lines to readjust their operations. The Italian cruise company Costa Cruises, part of Carnival Corporation, announced updates to its upcoming cruises for winter 2020-2021.

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak and the major disruption that has brought within the cruise operations, Mitsui OSK Passenger Line restarted cruising onboard the Nippon Maru cruise ship.

Alaska is the most hardly hit US nation by the cost of canceled 2020 cruise season, according to a new report by Commissioner Louis Sola which examines the economic impact on Alaskan citizens and tourism related businesses. 

Carnival Cruises' ship rescued 24 people off a sinking boat, 37 miles off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday 17 October. 

Malta stopped passengers disembarking from the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship over a suspected case of COVID-19, on Friday, according to information by Tourism Minister Julia Farrugia Portelli.