The Italian government – unlike the United States – has legal restart of the cruiser by the coronavirus pandemic. But cruise lines are cautious, as positive cases are spreading in some countries and some ships have even experienced new epidemics since they returned to the sea.
Costa Cruises announced on Tuesday its goal of resuming cruises from Italian ports in early September.
It will not suddenly be back to normal: the first shipment to sail will be the Costa Deliziosa on September 6, which will sail each and every week from Trieste to Greece. The Costa Diadema will start seven-day western Mediterranean cruises from Genoa on 19 September. Details on the itineraries of the two shipments will be published soon.
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Costa, which is a logo owned by Carnival Corporation, works with the government and destinations to follow regulations and protocols. The cruise line has developed a “Costa Safety Protocol” for its ships, which presents new operating procedures due to COVID-19. Independent clinical experts have consulted the line and the protocol is in line with the fitness guidelines of the Italian government and the European Union.
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However, the rest of the ships on the Italian cruise line will not sail until 30 September. The company extends the rest of its cruise season to this date, for the departures of the aforementioned ships.
Carnival Corporation, adding its Costa range, experienced several outbreaks at the beginning of the pandemic, adding Diamond Princess and Grand Princess.
Italy was the epicenter of the pandemic in early spring, this name has since been transferred to the United States, which exceeded five million cases on Sunday. Italy had just over 2,500,000 cases on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins’ knowledge. According to the World Health Organization, the country reported fewer than five00 new instances on the last day, unlike the United States. five4,000.
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Costa is the only Airline owned by Carnival to resume its cruise soon: Swiss company MSC Cruises has announced that its GREAT MSC and MSC Magnifica will depart this month, on August 16 and 29 respectively.
However, this return to cruise ships comes amid a complicated restart of the industry in recent weeks. There have been positive cases of COVID-19 on several ships, adding more than 50 cases of Hurtigruten’s MS Roald Amundsen.
Elsewhere: 10 members of AIDA Cruises’ AIDAblu and AIDAmar team (also a member of the Carnival family) learned that they took the COVID-19 test after boarding in Rostock, Germany, on July 22.
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Inflamed team members were removed from any of the ships after receiving positive results, and the remaining members of the team were remote on board pending another check results circular, said Roger Frizzell, spokesman for Carnival Corp., a parent company at AIDA Cruises. AMERICA TODAY.
AIDA is expected to resume cruise ship from German ports in early September. From September 6, Kiel’s first will start. AidAperla crossings to the Norwegian fjords, departing from Hamburg, will begin on 12, 19 and 26 September.
The other AIDA vessels will not resume navigation until 30 September. The ships were due to depart this month, but plans were cancelled due to lack of approval of the flag status, Italy.
Another Carnival subsidiary, Seabourn, is taking the opposite approach: it has extended cancellations for some of its ships.
And Royal Caribbean plans to include coronavirus as a component of its recovery plan, a corporate executive said in a quarterly effects presentation on Monday.
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The company’s operations have been suspended since March in the hope of resuming shipment in November, provided that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifts its order not to sail, which expires at the end of September. The U.S. cruise industry has voluntarily extended its shipping suspension until October 31. Although the company’s executives gave a date for the resumption of cruise ships, one of them said testing would be essential.
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The director of Norwegian Cruise Line’s parent company predicted that its ships would be back in full force until next spring.
Contributor: Morgan Hines, Curtis Tate, USA TODAY
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