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In addition to feature story coverage, here's a quick read of some of today’s other coronavirus-related cruise news and announcements.

CF Sharp Crew Management continues efforts to repatriate an estimated 7,000 crew for its principal clients, particularly Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.

The International Maritime Organization echoed earlier calls by shipping industry bodies for governments to recognise seafarers as 'key workers' providing essential services and therefore exempt from national travel or movement restrictions.

Carnival Australia President Sture Myrmell said an order by NSW Police for P&O Cruises Australia’s Pacific Explorer to leave the country is ‘unprecedented for the cruise line to be treated this way, given its Australian origins.’

Royal Caribbean Chairman and CEO Richard Fain agreed to give up his base salary — $1.1m in recent years — and other senior executives are taking pay cuts.

In addition to feature story coverage, here's a quick read of some of today’s other coronavirus-related cruise news and announcements.

Some European river lines hope to be cruising by late June, but it's not clear if Americans — who lag on the coronavirus curve — will be allowed to travel there.