Cruise Ship News

February normally marks the unofficial beginning of the tourist season in Greece, and cruise ships start arriving at Santorini, one of its most picturesque islands and a tourist hotspot. However, this year, the first cruise ship arrived there only in end March. This because the island was hit by a whopping over 20,000 earthquakes between 26th January and 22nd February. An emergency was declared, people fled from there and shops and restaurants and schools were closed, thousands of residents and temporary workers left the island. But now, Greece says the cosmopolitan island is safe and ready to welcome tourists. The first cruise ship docked with about 1200 passengers on board, who were mostly Americans. So is it now safe to visit? Watch!

The civic body has arranged five ambulances, each of them 17-seater, to ferry the Covid positive patients to quarantine facilities The nineteen other infected people are still on board the Cordelia cruise ship

Genting Cruise Lines’ World Dream and Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum of the Seas will begin round-trip journeys from November and December, respectively

Since mid-March, only a small handful of the world’s 400-or-so cruise ships have been able to accept passengers—all on hyperlocal itineraries This week, a cluster of 15 ships from Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean, and Celebrity Cruises was hanging out near the Bahamas, according to a report

Major ports are no longer issuing shore passes—temporary permits obtained for disembarkation—to crew members with a travel history to any country International cruise ships are allowed only at ports that have thermal screening facilities for passengers and crew

Medical teams are entering the cruise ship, still held in open waters near Oakland, California, to assess the condition of passengers Patients who are most acute with symptoms of the coronavirus and in need of hospitalization will be the first to leave

On board the Harmony of the Seas, 2,200 crew members work 24 hours a day to make sure their community of 6,300 passengers stays happy and healthy

As Royal Caribbean's latest effort to awe cruisers, Symphony of the Seas will offer robot bartenders, a 10-storey-high slide and a duplex family suite with its own movie theatre

The government is working on a cruise tourism policy to increase the cruise liner traffic to India 10-fold to 700 vessels a year

A task force on cruise tourism led by tourism secretary had recommended extension of cabotage relaxation beyond February 2019 'for sending a good signal to the cruise community'