Safety

With an increasing number of vessels returning to service following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, Survitec has advised that ships’ life-saving appliances (LSA) are maintained according to their original service schedules in order to avoid delays. Operators must [Read more...]

Some three months after its launch, Foreship’s Project Hygiea has been deployed on an undisclosed cruise ship in support of its return to market. Project Hygiea’s four-step Covid-19 passenger vessel response plan was verified by class society Bureau [Read more...]

Silversea’s ‘Silver Spirit’ has become the first ultra-luxury cruise ship to sail with a certificate in infection prevention for maritime (CIP-M) from DNV GL. The CIP-M programme is built on DNV GL Healthcare’s expertise in infection risk management. [Read more...]

The Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) has criticised Hurtigruten for deviating from health and safety policy and regulations in the midst of the pandemic.   It said in a report that Hurtigruten failed to announce or log both suspicion and [Read more...]

Australia has extended its ban on cruise ships entering its waters until mid-December. The ban, which also includes overseas travel, was announced by Australia's Federal Health Minister, Greg Hunt (pictured). An emergency period of the Biosecurity Act of [Read more...]

Consultancy Brookes Bell has been contracted by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) to deliver its software solution SRtP Onboard™ across its ‘Breakaway Plus’ cruise ship class. Brookes Bell was engaged directly by the Meyer Werft shipyard, builder of the [Read more...]

Royal Caribbean has introduced electronic safety drills onto its app. Muster 2.0 is a new programme which updates the cruise industry’s standard safety drill with a process that is more personal and promotes higher levels of safety, the [Read more...]

Port communities worldwide have joined forces to demand a no return to business as usual after COVID-19. They have launched the ’Global Cruise Activist Network’, a worldwide group of activists who are demanding the cruise industry doesn’t return to business [Read more...]

Hurtigruten faces potential problems, due to alleged cases of COVID-19 being reported emanating from the expedition cruise ship ‘Roald Amundsen’ after she berthed at Tromso in late July. Initial Norwegian investigations have uncovered issues, which could give rise [Read more...]

An official inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak on board the cruise ship ’Ruby Princess’ blamed the New South Wales Government public health agencies for allowing hundreds of COVID-positive passengers to leave the ship. It broadly exonerated Princess Cruises and the [Read more...]