Diamond Princess will undertake a maiden cruise season in South America and Antarctica in late 2021/early 2022, replacing Sapphire Princess on the same deployment from December through March.
TUI River Cruises will launch November 26, with Isla sailing three Christmas and New Year itineraries – Mistletoe and Rhine, Yuletide Wonders and Rhine Gems – and Skyla and Maya preparing to set sail in April 2021 from Frankfurt and Budapest.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian offered an ‘unreserved apology’ for the ‘serious mistakes’ made by NSW health officials when Ruby Princess docked in Sydney on March 19.
MSC Grandiosa slowly edged away from her berth in Genoa at 7.30 Sunday evening carrying around 1,000 passengers to become the first ship from the MSC Cruises fleet to welcome guests back and to implement the company’s health and safety protocol.
Costa Cruises' September sailings of Costa Deliziosa from Trieste and Costa Diadema from Genoa will be reserved exclusively for Italians, with weeklong itineraries to Italian ports only. Also, the company may consider testing all travelers.
With cruise ship operations in Italy resuming this weekend, Genoa’s Stazioni Marittime is preparing to welcome passengers to its terminal after a four-month-plus break in activity.
The Port of Southampton will gain a fifth cruise terminal, enhancing an industry described by Anne-Marie Mountifield, chief executive, Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), as a 'lynchpin of our national visitor economy.’
