The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is assisting hundreds of seafarers currently stranded on board six Global Cruise Lines managed cruise ships in the UK. Five ships are lying idle at Tilbury and the sixth is at Bristol (Avonmouth) - (see ICSI News, 27th June). [Read more...]
The Norwegian Government has announced that expedition cruise operators will be allowed to revisit Svalbard under strict new regulations. For example, cruise ships will only be able to carry half of their maximum capacity, need additional medical staff on board and also require guest health [Read more...]
Cruise Lines International Association’s (CLIA) members are to voluntarily extend the suspension of cruise operations at US ports to 15th September, 2020. The association said; “Due to the ongoing situation within the US related to COVID-19, CLIA member cruise lines have decided to voluntarily extend [Read more...]
Cruise Ship Interiors Expo Europe (CSIE) is now just over five months away and the floorplan is already 90% sold out! And International Cruise Ship Industry is proud to be media partners for this event. CSIE is now the only marine-focused show occurring this year [Read more...]
The inaugural Cruise Ship Interiors Awards (CSIA) took place virtually on 15th June. Winners were picked across 19 categories. The finalists were hand picked by a panel of industry experts from across the cruise lines. CSIA then opened the voting to the cruise interiors community. [Read more...]
In a response to the UK Government’s increase in taxpayer support to P&O Ferries, seafarer union RMT has demanded that the company withdraws plans for 1,100 redundancies. These are mainly planned amongst directly employed UK seafarers in Dover and Hull. A written answer to Hull [Read more...]
The Australian Government has extended its ban on cruise ships until 17th September, 2020. This decision, announced by the Australian Minister of Health, extends the ban on cruise ships capable of carrying more than 100 pax from operating cruises in Australia. In making the announcement, [Read more...]
The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) affiliated seafarers’ unions have helped to repatriate the crew of TUI Cruises ‘Mein Schiff 3’ on charter flights from Germany The ITF unions were also helped by the German Government and the German seafarers’ mission. After passengers disembarked from [Read more...]
Gibraltar’s Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, has exchanged letters with Royal Caribbean’s Director of Port Services EMEA, Alessandro Carollo, following the successful repatriation of Royal Caribbean crews at Gibraltar recently. Carollo said that communities like Gibraltar are rare gems of humanity in such difficult and [Read more...]
UK seafarers union, RMT has written to the new UK Shipping Minister, Kelly Tolhurst MP, demanding actions to support the union’s fight to save more than 1,000 jobs at P&O Ferries. Over 730 of these threatened jobs are currently held by UK seafarer ratings employed [Read more...]