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CDC updates guidance on cruising

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued the next phase of technical guidance under its Framework for Conditional Sailing Order (CSO). Though it marks another step forward by the CDC, it gives no date for a restart of cruising from the U.S, and it remains unclear whether it is a sufficient advance to enable cruise lines to get the July restart date they have been looking for.

This phase, the second of the CSO issued in October 2020, provides technical instructions on:

  • Increa...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/cruising/cdc-updates-guidance-on-cruising/

VIDEO: Brodosplit delivers Quark polar expedition cruise ship

Seattle, Wash,, headquartered Quark Expeditions has taken delivery of its technologically-advanced, Ice ClassA+, PC6, polar vessel, Ultramarine, in a handover ceremony at the Brodosplit shipyard in Croatia.

The 125 meter long, 199 passenger, 13,762 gt expedition cruise ship has been built to a design by Sembcorp Marine’s Bergen, Norway, headquartered subsidiary LMG Marin.

“Today, we took ownership of more than a new ship. We officially welcomed into our fleet a game-changing vessel that will soon...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/cruising/video-brodosplit-delivers-quark-polar-expedition-cruise-ship/

Next World Destination To Permit Resumption of Cruising

New Zealand is becoming the next world destination to permit a limited resumption of cruising starting in February 2021, as the Ministry of Health granted conditional approval to the French cruise company Ponant to restart cruises in New Zealand limited to local residents, says an article published in Daily Times.

Important first step

Ponant responded thanking the New Zealand officials and calling it an important first step. The company had been in dialogue for months with officials in both New...

https://mfame.guru/limited-resumption-of-cruising-starting-in-february/

Hedda Felin named CEO of Hurtigruten Norway

Hurtigruten Group has appointed Hedda Felin as CEO of Hurtigruten Norway, where she will will assume her new role on March 1, 2021, taking the helm of Hurtigruten’s iconic coastal Norway operations.

The group has reorganized its cruise operations in two different entities: Hurtigruten Expeditions and Hurtigruten Norway, which will, from 2021, operate seven custom-built, smaller cruise ships. Hurtigruten Norway will operate as a separate entity.

Felin comes to Hurtigruten from Norwegian based...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/cruising/hedda-felin-named-ceo-of-hurtigruten-norway/

World’s First Cruise With Onboard COVID Testing Lab

A cruise ship at sea

According to a Forbes report, Viking Star will offer daily PCR testing to all passengers and crew via the first floating laboratory of its kind at sea, making it in the first cruise ship to this.

Viking Ocean Cruise

Petridish of Virus To Moving Virus Lab

Once considered the petri-dish of the pre-pandemic era, cruise ships, and the cruise industry in general, has been making serious strides towards a better, cleaner future. This week, those strides come to us from luxury cruise line Viking, who...

https://mfame.guru/worlds-first-cruise-with-onboard-covid-testing-lab/

Viking Cruises installs first full-scale PCR lab at sea

As cruise lines prepare to resume sailing under protocols calling for extensive COVID-19 testing of passengers and crew, Torstein Hagen’s Viking Cruises said today that it has completed installation of the first full-scale PCR laboratory at sea.

This new onboard facility – claimed as an industry first – enables Viking to conduct PCR testing of all crew members and guests with a non-invasive saliva test.

This first laboratory has been installed on the company’s 930-guest ocean vessel Viking Star;...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/cruising/viking-cruises-installs-first-full-scale-pcr-lab-at-sea/

CDC releases framework for phased resumption of cruising

Cruise line stocks soared today as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a framework for a phased resumption of cruise ship passenger operations.

The full framework runs to 40 pages of pretty detailed conditions of what cruise lines must do to get a “COVID-19 Conditional Sailing Certificate” that needs careful study, but there’s evidently enough in the executive summary issue to excite Wall Street.

Considering the continued spread of COVID-19 worldwide and increased risk...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/cruising/cdc-releases-framework-for-phased-resumption-of-cruising/

The World of Post Pandemic Cruising – Big Ships Over Small?

As the world looks toward the post pandemic world, one thing that’s staring at many people is the change in traveling. When CDC’s no-sail order expires, how will cruisers return to the water is the question in everyone’s mind. Will it be mega ships or small cruises that will find favour.

An article published in Travel Pulse sought to understand the emerging new normal of the cruise industry. Let’s take a look at it.

The Large Ship Advantage

Like always, it depends on the traveler.

“From a social...

https://mfame.guru/the-world-of-post-pandemic-cruising-big-ships-over-small/

Still burning cash, Carnival hopes for resumption of U.S. cruises this year

In a business update released today, the world’s largest cruise ship operator, Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) reported that its monthly average cash burn rate for the third quarter 2020 was $770 million, in line with what had been anticipated. It now expects the monthly average cash burn rate for the fourth quarter of 2020 to be approximately $530 million. This results in an average monthly burn rate for the second half of the year of $650 million as previously disclosed.

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https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/cruising/still-burning-cash-carnival-hopes-for-resumption-of-u-s-cruises-this-year/

Ship Concierge or Butlers in Cruises?

Silversea butler champagne

When you thumb through cruise line brochures, you read a lot of jargon that might not be defined. If you’re new to cruising — or even if you’re just new to booking a higher cabin category — you may not necessarily know the difference between the terms concierge and butler. One such thing is cruise concierge and butler which are strictly different job profiles in the cruise industry. The Point Guys seek to find out the difference between the two in this article.

Let’s take a look what they found...

https://mfame.guru/ship-concierge-or-butlers-in-cruises/

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