Covid-19 and cruise ships

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The British cruise company CMV is facing bankruptcy unless they can find financial support quickly;


They operate some older “classical” ships, like the Marco Polo:
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CDC: Cruise lines continue to ignore and violate guidelines, No Sail Order extended to October.

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Given the recent history of Covid and cruise ships, you’d think the first company to resume cruising would have been very carefully to get their ducks in a row. Evidently not the case.

From NPR: “We have made mistakes,” Hurtigruten CEO Daniel Skjeldam said in a statement. “A preliminary evaluation shows that there has been a failure in several of our internal procedures.”

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The sister ship of Roald Amundsen, the Fridtjof Nansen made a stop here in Ålesund today to land test sample of the crew and pax for analysis by a lab in Bergen, where she will arrive tomorrow.
4 crew members are isolated on board with flu-like symptoms and the pax ordered to stay in their cabins until the test result are returned tomorrow:

There are one case confirmed on board the Viking Star. The ship has been in layup here since May. The entire crew has been isolated on board the ship the entire time, so it is a mystery how he has contracted the virus:

Ålesund has not been badly hit by the pandemic and there have not been any cases reported since 11. July:

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The four that was isolated onboard Fridtjof Nansen has tested negative for Covid-19.

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The three Norwegian line ships at PIT sailed this past Saturday ahead of the storm. Destination unknown.

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As has the crew on Seadream 1

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Friday, two other Norwegian Cruise Line ships left Miami.
All five NCL ships are now in mid-Atlantic. Two are heading to Malmoe/Sweden, three to Gibraltar.

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And the band plays on …

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Hurtigruten cancel further Expedition cruises for the time being;


But the coastal service are unaffected and continue as normal (nearly)

Meanwhile Costa Cruises is trying to get back to cruising asap:

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Gothenburg Port steps up and allow crew change from two NCL ships that call specially for that purpose:

Note: Some of the crew has been on board for a year without finding a friendly port to allow the to get home.