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Five Cruise & Maritime Voyages ships up for sale by tender

Five cruise ships operated by insolvent Cruise & Maritime Voyages - Astor, Columbus, Magellan, Marco Polo and Vasco da Gama – are to be auctioned next month.

Mary Bond, Editor in Chief

September 11, 2020

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The ships are currently laid up in the UK – four in Tilbury and Marco Polo in Avonmouth, Bristol. They can be inspected by arrangement.

Each vessel is to be sold by separate sealed tender, ‘as is where is’ at the time of sale, on behalf of the Admiralty Marshal by exclusive broker CW Kellock & Co Ltd.

Offers by sealed bid or email

Offers have to be submitted in sealed envelopes marked with vessel’s name, or by emailing CW Kellock & Co by midday on the dates indicated below:

1993 built and 630 cabin Vasco da Gama bid deadline October 8. 

1989 built, 736 cabin Columbus bid deadline October 12.

1987 built, 295 cabin Astor bid deadline October 15.

1985 built, 726 cabin Magellan bid deadline October 19.

1965 built, 425 cabin Marco Polo bid deadline October 22.

Last month, the administrators of insolvent Cruise & Maritime Voyages confirmed the sale of UK commercial assets to CVI Group Limited (CVI), a company owned by Christian Verhounig, former chief executive of CMV. 

 

About the Author

Mary Bond

Editor in Chief

Mary Bond is Group Director, Seatrade Cruise a division within Informa Markets and responsible for the Seatrade portfolio of global cruise events, print and online cruise publishing.

Mary is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Seatrade Cruise News and Seatrade Cruise Review magazine.

Mary has worked in the shipping industry for 39 years, first for Lloyd’s Register of Shipping before joining Seatrade’s editorial team in 1985.

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