Accidents
False positive Coronavirus (COVID-19) test cancels 2020 Alaska cruise season
A week after the first Alaskan cruise ship for 2020 returned to port with a COVID-positive guest, follow-up testing found no infected crew or...
August 13, 2020
850 French passengers sue Costa Cruises after contracting COVID-19 onboard
Around 850 French passengers who were onboard a COVID-riddled cruise ship (turned away from many ports in March 2020) filed a collective suit in...
August 10, 2020
Number of COVID-19 cases on Hurtigruten’s Roald Amundsen ship rises to 62
The number of people on Hurtigruten’s Roald Amundsen ship who have tested COVID-positive has risen to 62. Following the outbreak, the ship's...
August 7, 2020
VIDEO: Orient Queen cruise ship sinks after blast in Beirut
The Orient Queen cruise ship which was berthed at Port Beirut (Lebanon) has sunk following two very large explosions in the cargo port on August 4...
August 6, 2020
SeaDream passenger tests positive for Coronavirus after arriving in Denmark
On Tuesday, August 4, SeaDream Yacht Club was informed that a passenger from Denmark had been COVID-diagnosed after a routine check on arrival in the...
August 6, 2020UnCruise Adventures' Wilderness Adventurer sails back to port with COVID-19 case
Alaska’s first cruise ship of the year returned to port early after a passenger tested COVID-positive, according to written statements issued...
August 5, 2020
Crew tests positive for COVID-19 on Viking Cruises' Viking Star ship
A crew member of Viking Cruises' Viking Star ship in Alesund Norway has tested COVID-positive. The company said there had been minimal contact...
August 5, 2020
Orient Queen cruise ship significantly damaged in Beirut Port explosion
Authorities in Lebanon are counting the number of dead and injured after the explosion at Beirut Port that rocked the city. The blast, which...
August 5, 2020
Powerful explosions rock Beirut port
A massive explosion ripped through Lebanon;'s capital Beirut City on Tuesday, August 4, injuring many people and blowing out windows in a wealth of...
August 4, 2020
Crew tests positive for COVID-19 on Ponant's Paul Gauguin ship
In the South Pacific, cruisers on Ponant's ship Paul Gauguin (docked in Papeete, Tahiti Island, French Polynesia) were told to stay in their cabins...
August 3, 2020
3 crew test positive for COVID-19 on 2 Costa Cruises ships
Three crew on the Costa Cruises ships Costa Favolosa and Costa Deliziosa have tested COVID-positive. Both liners are moored at homeport Civitavecchia...
August 3, 202033 crew test positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Hurtigruten's Roald Amundsen ship
Hurtigruten’s ms Roald Amundsen, which is one of the first cruise ships to resume sailings in the wake of the pandemic, reported an outbreak of...
August 1, 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on Hurtigruten's Roald Amundsen ship
4 crew members on Hurtigruten's ms Roald Amundsen have tested COVID-positive. The authorities in Tromso Norway are cooperating with the cruise...
July 31, 2020
Carnival Fantasy arrived at Turkey's Aliaga shipbreaking yard for scrapping
The passenger liner Carnival Fantasy ended its final voyage Tuesday morning, July 28, when the vessel arrived at its final resting place. Following...
July 29, 2020
Boston-based cruise shipping company ordered to cease and desist a party cruise
The company behind what happened to be a crowded Boston Harbor weekend party cruise was ordered to stop operating. The Massachusetts Department of...
July 28, 2020