CRUISE WEEKLY NEWS
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HAL guests allowed to disembark
Friday | Apr 3 2020BELEAGUERED Holland America Line (HAL) ships Rotterdam and Zaandam (pictured) have been approved for disembarkation at Port Everglades in Florida, after being denied entry to multiple South American countries.
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COVID-19 aboard Greg
Friday | Apr 3 2020COVID-19 has been confirmed in the 60-year-old passenger who disembarked Aurora Expeditions’ Greg Mortimer (CW yesterday).
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Explorer gone
Friday | Apr 3 2020PRESIDENT of Carnival Australia Sture Myrmell has slammed New South Wales Police, which ordered P&O Australia’s Sydney-homeported flagship Pacific Explorer to leave the state’s waters.
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Chimu second flt
Friday | Apr 3 2020A SECOND charter flight organised by Chimu Adventures has brought more Australians and New Zealanders home from South America (CW 31 Mar).
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Porthole 03 Apr 20
Friday | Apr 3 2020THERE are a lot of ships around the world with very little to do at the moment, two of which are Dream Cruises’ Explorer Dream and Genting Dream.
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Myrmell plays front foot defence
Thursday | Apr 2 2020CARNIVAL Australia President Sture Myrmell has released a video strenuously defending the cruise sector, which he says has been unfairly “demonised” throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
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Heritage’s Prime show
Thursday | Apr 2 2020HERITAGE Expeditions’ 30-day Ross Sea voyage to Antarctica, ‘In the Wake of Scott & Shackleton’, is the star of a new 12-hour slow television documentary.
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Mortimer update
Thursday | Apr 2 2020AURORA Expeditions’ Greg Mortimer, currently quarantined off the coast of Uruguay, has reported six ill, including one 60-year-old passenger, who is a possible COVID-19 case.
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Carnival bonds
Thursday | Apr 2 2020CARNIVAL Corporation has increased the size of its rescue bond sale to US$4 billion, after orders for the deal came in way over US$10 billion.
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CLIA calling for crew repatriation efforts
Thursday | Apr 2 2020CRUISE Lines International Association (CLIA) Australasia has joined Carnival (see page 1) in calling for the repatriation of crew.
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