Asia & Australasia

Heritage Expeditions, the family-owned New Zealand company that was granted an exemption to restart cruising for Kiwis only last November 24 with its flagship Spirit of Enderby, has substituted two cruises for a proposed Ross Sea expedition that...

After cancelling Carnival Spirit’s 15-day repositioning voyage from Singapore to Brisbane, Carnival Cruise Line Australia added more Sydney cruises on Carnival Splendor.

P&O Cruises Australia is extending its rolling pause for Pacific Explorer’s departures in New Zealand through to April 25.

Coral Expeditions will operate a New Year programme of sailings from January with its flagship Coral Adventurer, which will have been tied up at the company’s homeport of Cairns for 10 months.

Australia’s Health Minister Greg Hunt welcomed Monday’s news that New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Cabinet agreed in principle to establish a trans-Tasman ‘bubble’ early next year.

Singapore’s pilot for safe cruises will continue as planned, following the news that the suspected COVID-19 case on board Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum of the Seas was a false positive.

Princess Cruises will sail from Yokohama and Kobe in summer 2022 on diverse itineraries spanning from the southern tropical islands of Okinawa to the northernmost island of Hokkaido.