People & Opinions

Carnival Corp. & plc Chairman Micky Arison sold 5m shares for a total of $102.91m.

Virgin Voyages President and CEO Tom McAlpin implored shoreside operators to be ‘aggressive’ in preventing coronavirus spread, Celestyal Cruises CEO Chris Theophilides agreed and urged less dependency on technology.

Carnival Corp. & plc announced Peter Anderson as a named executive officer.

Stein Kruse was named to a new role as senior advisor to the chairman and the CEO, Carnival Corp. & plc, and Jan Swartz moves to group president, Holland America Group.

In Cunard North America changes, Jamie Paiko was appointed VP sales, Nicole Knox was promoted to director of marketing and Jeriel Lubaton added customer service team management to his duties.

Viking hired a highly decorated veteran, Vice Adm. Raquel C. Bono, MD, as chief health officer.

Martin Imbleau, from the public utilities sector, was appointed president and CEO of the Montréal Port Authority.

CSSC Carnival Cruise Shipping Ltd, the joint venture between CSSC and Carnival Corp. & plc, formed a cruise ship operations team based in Shanghai.

Former senior project manager at MedCruise, Aimilia Papachristou, has been appointed the association’s new secretary general, replacing Jordi Caballé who served in the role since February 2018.

26-year veteran expedition leader, Pierre Thomas, will take on the director of expedition operations role at Swan Hellenic.