Marco Polo Returns to South Africa

Marco Polo Cape Town 28 Jan 2020

South Africa’s cruise ports are welcoming a special visitor this week as the Marco Polo passenger liner visits our shores for the first time since the 1990s.

Originally built in 1965, the cruise liner is operated under charter by UK-based Cruise and Maritime Voyages (CMV) and flies the flag of the Bahamas. Her passengers are predominantly British retirees. The Master of the ship is Captain Sergiy Zhygalin of the Ukraine.

Her present 78-night Grand African and Indian Ocean Voyage began at the Port...

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Astor Closes Port of Mossel Bay’s 2018/19 Cruise Season

The arrival of the MS ASTOR cruise liner at the Port of Mossel Bay on Thursday, 28 March brought the port’s 2018-19 cruise season to a stunning end. The vessel is owned by the Germany-based Premicon, under charter to the Germany-based Transocean Tours and is one of four vessels to have visited Mossel Bay this season.

She arrived with 500 passengers mainly from Germany en route from Durban to Cape Town.

The vessel was welcomed by Mossel Bay Harbour Master, Captain Vania Cloete who presented a...

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