ROME, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Tests on a passenger from Macau aboard a cruise liner blocked in an Italian port confirmed on Thursday she did not have coronavirus, an Italian health ministry spokesman said. About 6,000 people were prevented from disembarking for safety reasons in the Italian city of...
Royal Caribbean Cruises has suspended three more sailings on Spectrum of the Seas, homeported in China.
Six seafarers have fallen ill on board a CMA CGM containership after calling in China sparking fears that coronavirus could be to blame. The seafarers are crew members of CMA CGM Ural, which is currently underway from Singapore towards the Suez Canal en route to Turkey and the Black Sea. Reports...
Container shippers should expect more blanked sailings and increased freight rates if China’s coronavirus outbreak extends factory closures, while airlines are scrambling to reduce flights into the country.
The government has already extended the lunar new year holiday until 2 February, but workers in major cities like Shanghai and Ningbo have been told to stay home until 10 February.
“Should this additional week-long shut down be extended nationally, it would be no …
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CMA CGM container ship sailing from China reported 6 crew with fever, reports Maritime Bulletin.
Seamen confirmed ill6 Sri Lankan seamen were confirmed ill with fever and high temperature, on board the container ship CMA CGM URAL. The vessel is presently steaming in Gulf of Aden, en route from China to Suez and then Mediterranean / Black Sea ports, via Singapore.
Ship called Chinese ports as follows:
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Six crewmembers onboard a CMA CGM ship have been reported ill, with the possibility of coronavirus infection.
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It is confirmed that six seafarers from Sri Lanka are ill, having fever, on board of container vessel CMA CGM Ural, according to Maritime Bulletin. As the boxship earlier in January called the ports of Shenzhen, Xiamen, Ningbo-Zhousan and Yangshan in China, there are fears that seamen may be affected from coronavirus.
CMA CGM vessel is presently steaming in Gulf of Aden, en route from China to Suez and then Mediterranean / Black sea ports, via Singapore, Maritime Bulletin says.
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Concerns are rising over the coronavirus outbreak in China and the potential disruption to global supply chains.
The number of reported cases in China surged 60% overnight to more than 4,500, with the death toll rising to 106 people.
Yesterday, Beijing announced that the lunar new year holiday would be extended by three days, until 2 February, in an effort to contain the virus, following its outbreak in Wuhan, capital of the …
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China announced on 27 January 2020 that the Lunar New Year holiday will be extended to 2 February 2020 as a measure to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The General Office of the State Council said in an announcement that the measure is taken to effectively reduce mass gatherings, block the spread of the epidemic, and to better safeguard the safety and health of the Chinese people.
The holiday started on 24 January 2020 and was originally to end on 30 January 2020.
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