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Jo Rzymowska welcomes Celebrity Apex into Southampton

Celebrity Apex arrived into Southampton Tuesday as crew prepare to sail Celebrity Cruises’ newest ship for her first trans-Atlantic voyage to Florida.

Mary Bond, Editor in Chief

September 23, 2020

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Credit: Seatrade Cruise News

The ship was welcomed into the UK south coast port by Jo Rzymowska, vp & md, EMEA for Celebrity Cruises from onboard a launch which tracked her arrival.

PortMiami-bound

Celebrity Apex is en route to PortMiami as its first US stop.

Built in Saint-Nazaire and handed over to Celebrity Cruises in March, the ship finally left Chantiers de l'Atlantique in August.

Celebrity Apex had remained at the yard's Penhoet wharf due to the coronavirus pandemic, which affected more than 200 crew members

Port Everglades winter home

Since then the ship has been at anchor off the French coast but is now on the next stage of her journey to the US to winter homeport of Fort Lauderdale before returning to Europe and summer homeport of Barcelona.

 

 

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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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