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This Is a Daily Compilation of Media Articles Concerning the Covid-19 Impact on the International Cruise Industry 1 THIS IS A DAILY COMPILATION OF MEDIA ARTICLES CONCERNING THE COVID-19 IMPACT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CRUISE INDUSTRY. Please note this isn’t a complete listing of media articles but a snapshot only. 19 March, 2020: MORE THAN 2,000 ARE IN LOCKDOWN ON A CRUISE SHIP IN MELBOURNE AS THEY UNDERGO CORONAVIRUS SCREENINGS AT THE DOCK AFTER A 'NUMBER OF PEOPLE FELL ILL' More than 2,000 passengers and crew are temporarily locked down on a ship at a Melbourne dock while they undergo coronavirus screenings. The Golden Princess has docked at Station Pier at Port Melbourne, but disembarkation has been delayed until the ship receives clearance from Victorian health authorities. 'The advice that I have is that there are a number of passengers who are unwell,' Health Minister Jenny Mikakos told reporters. 'It's not believed that it is COVID-19 related, that is the medical advice that I have received.' Read more…. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8128787/Coronavirus-Golden-Princess-cruise-ship-lockdown- Melbourne-passengers-tested.html 19 March, 2020: 2 CRUISE SHIPS HEADED FOR HONOLULU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO DISEMBARK, OFFICIALS SAY (HONOLULU) — Two cruise ships won’t be allowed to disembark in Honolulu after being turned away by other ports, even with no positive cases of coronavirus on either vessel, officials said Wednesday. State and cruise line officials previously said passengers would disembark at Honolulu Harbor. However, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who is running for president, said during a telephone town hall Wednesday that the state Department of Transportation “made the difficult, but correct, decision to only allow the Maasdam and Norwegian Jewel cruise vessels … to come into port solely to take on fuel and resupply, in Honolulu Harbor.” The Maasdam, operated by Holland America Line, had its port call canceled in Hilo and is set to arrive Friday to Honolulu Harbor, state officials said. It has 842 guests and 542 crew members. Norwegian Cruise Line said one of its vessels that was turned away by Fiji and New Zealand is expected to arrive to Honolulu on Sunday. The Norwegian Jewel, with about 1,700 passengers, refueled in American Samoa but was not allowed to disembark at the Port of Pago Pago. Read more… https://time.com/5806090/cruise-honolulu-maasdam-coronavirus/ 19 March, 2020: CMV Pulls Off At Sea Passenger Transfer Between Ships Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV) saw two of its ships, the Columbus and Vasco da Gama, meet some 12 nautical miles off the coast of Phuket, Thailand to undertake a unique passenger transfer and repatriation operation involving 239 passengers. Despite representations and last-ditch mercy pleas to the Thai Authorities, the Port of Phuket remained closed to cruise ships along with all other ports in Southeast Asia and the wider Indian sub-continent rendering an air repatriation not an option, the company said. Permission had however been granted by the local officials to take on provisions and bunkers off the coast of Phuket before the ships’ onward voyages. Read more…. https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/22639-cmv-pulls-off-at-sea-passenger-transfer- between-ships.html Document prepared by A.L. Skinner Consulting Inc https://gusskinnerconsulting.com subject to changes / amendments pg. 1 2 19 March, 2020: COVID-19: HURTIGRUTEN SUSPENDS CRUISE OPERATIONS Expedition cruise line Hurtigruten has announced the suspension of its cruise operations due to the Covid- 19 pandemic. The operations along the coast of Norway will be suspended until 19 April, while the Expedition cruises will be suspended until 28 April. The company said that the ships will be removed from service in a phased manner for a safe and smooth stop in operations. Read more… https://www.ship-technology.com/news/covid-19-hurtigruten-cruise-operations/ 19 March, 2020: CRUISE PASSENGERS ABANDON SHIP VIA LIFEBOATS TO GET BACK HOME Nearly 200 Australians passengers from a cruise ship (CMV Columbus) which was in Phuket abandoned the vessel on lifeboats to join another vessel so they could go back home. As cruise lines continue to work on getting their vessel back to port safely after suspending operations passengers on a ship operated by Cruise & Maritime Voyages took the quickest way to get back home option! According to the news in Australia, passengers who lived in Australia were given the option to remain onboard the Columbus cruise ship as it sails back to the UK or abandons ship on lifeboats to get back to Australia which is much closer. Apparently a total of 178 guests disembarked the CMV operated vessel on lifeboats as the ship was near the island of Phuket, Thailand. Another vessel named Vasco da Gama (IMO 8919245) was nearby was heading for Fremantle, Australia and thankfully the ship is operated by the same cruise line. Read more…. https://www.cruisehive.com/cruise-passengers-abandon-ship-via-lifeboats-to-get-back-home/38522 19 March, 2020: AT LEAST 77 CANADIANS ON BOARD CRUISE SHIP WITH COVID-19 CASES: GLOBAL AFFAIRS OTTAWA -- Global Affairs Canada says at least 77 Canadians are on a trans-Atlantic cruise ship that has several COVID-19 cases among its passengers. Costa Luminosa, which has more than 1,400 people on board, is heading for the French Mediterranean port of Marseille. Dozens of crew members and passengers aboard the Costa Luminosa cruise ship are recorded as sick as the ship nears France in hopes of docking there Thursday, according to ship logs obtained by the Miami Herald. The cruise ship, owned by Miami-based Carnival Corporation, has left three people diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in two countries — Puerto Rico and the Cayman Islands — since it departed Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Feb. 24. The cruise was originally supposed to end in Venice, Italy, on March 25 but is now scheduled to dock in Marseilles on Thursday after bypassing several ports. Passengers and crew members on board say they are nervous about what will happen when they arrive in France. President Emanuel Macron announced a 15-day lockdown of the country on Tuesday prohibiting all nonessential outings. At least 24 crew members on board the ship are classified as sick and are isolated, according to ship logs obtained by the Herald, and at least 50 passengers are classified as sick, or are roommates of passengers who are classified as sick. There are currently 1,427 passengers on board. Read more…. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/at-least-77-canadians-on-board-cruise-ship-with-covid-19- cases-global-affairs-1.4859315 Document prepared by A.L. Skinner Consulting Inc https://gusskinnerconsulting.com subject to changes / amendments pg. 2 3 https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/03/18/latest-coronavirus-covid-19-news-canada-updates- pandemic.html 18 March, 2020: PASSENGERS OF 2 CRUISE SHIPS EXPECTED IN HONOLULU WON’T BE ALLOWED TO DISEMBARK HONOLULU, Hawaii (Hawaii News Now) - Two cruise ships are expected to dock at Honolulu Harbor at the end of this week, but passengers won’t be allowed off. The two ships — the Maasdam, operated by Holland American Line, and the Norwegian Jewel, operated by Norwegian Cruise Line — will only be allowed to refuel and restock supplies, then head back out to sea, the Hawaii Department of Transportation said Wednesday afternoon. All cruise ship operations are on a 30-day pause in Hawaii, which took effect on March 14. The Maasdam is expected to arrive at 2 p.m. Friday, with the Norwegian Jewel following on March 22. State officials say the Maasdam has 850 people on board and the Norwegian Jewel has 1,700. Neither ship has any confirmed cases of COVID-19. Read more… https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/03/19/passengers-cruise-ships-expected-honolulu-wont-be- allowed-disembark/?outputType=amp https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/03/18/breaking-news/2-cruise-ships-turned-away-by-other- ports-head-to-honolulu/ 18 March, 2020: CELEBRITY, COSTA CRUISES WORK TO BRING BACK STRANDED SHIPS, GET PASSENGERS HOME While many major cruise operators are idling their fleets in response to the coronavirus pandemic, some ships are still at sea or trying to find a port as they deal with fears that some passengers or crew may have become infected with COVID-19. Read more… https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5065220002 18 March, 2020: UPDATE: QUARANTINED CRUISE SHIP PASSENGER WITH WILMINGTON TIES HEADING HOME WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, some good news for the passengers aboard a cruise ship under quarantine now for two weeks. They learned Wednesday evening that France is going to allow them to dock there after being turned away from several ports of entry. “We’re going home,” Kelly Edge said with excitement in a video sent to WECT Wednesday night. “We just got the news that France said yes so we’ll be docking tomorrow morning. We’ll be screened for our health and then we’ll be taken to the airport for a chartered flight home to good ole’ USA and we couldn’t be more thrilled.” Kelly, a former designer for HGTV and an annual guest of the Willie Stargell Celebrity Golf Invitational, was supposed to be on a fun trip with her husband, Woody. The couple boarded the Costa Luminosa March 5 for a 20-day cruise from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Venice, Italy in celebration of Woody’s retirement. Read more…. https://www.wect.com/2020/03/19/update-quarantined-cruise-ship-passenger-with-wilmington-ties- heading-home/?outputType=amp Document prepared by A.L. Skinner Consulting Inc https://gusskinnerconsulting.com subject to changes / amendments pg.
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