The cruise ship Mein Schiff 2 has kicked off the summer cruise season at Port of Valencia. The first, and long-awaited, cruise ship call after more than 15 months to Valencia was on June 27. The cruise ship Mein Schiff 2 arrived at the quay escorted by tugboats spraying water jets to celebrate her arrival. The German cruise ship has made a stopover in Valencia from Alicante and has docked at Cruise Ship Pier 1 of the northern extension of the Port of Valencia.

Today, June 26, the cruise ship MSC Grandiosa arrived at the Port of Barcelona becoming the first international ship to call at the Catalan capital since the start of the pandemic. The arrival of the ship marks the restart of the cruise activity in Barcelona with about 2,000 cruise passengers onboard MSC Grandiosa, mostly Italians and Germans.

A passenger sailing on the cruise ship MSC Grandiosa was medically evacuated yesterday by the Italian Coast Guard after suffering from internal bleeding. 

Today, June 26, Celebrity Cruises will restart voyages on Celebrity Edge, the first cruise ship to set sail from U.S. port with paying guests. As agreed with CDC, at least 95% of passengers need to be fully vaccinated on the ship. According to Celebrity Cruises, 100% of the crew onboard Celebrity Edge are already fully vaccinated. 

Starting today the crew onboard Anthem of the Seas will go in a so-called modified quarantine after four crew members tested positive for COVID-19 on the recent PCR test. According to our source, the 4 crew members disembarked the ship today.

The cruise ship Mein Schiff 2 departed from her summer homeport Palma de Mallorca today, restarting the popular cruises to the western Mediterranean. Around 900 guests and 750 crew members are on board the first 7-day roundtrip voyage tith Captain Thomas Roth at the helm. The ship will sail two different itineraries with stops in Barcelona and Valencia, the Andalusian ports of Malaga and Cádiz, Alicante on the Costa Blanca and Cartagena in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. 

Princess Cruises announced the restart of cruise operations out of several U.S. ports starting from September 2021. The cruise line plans to start voyages from the ports of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Ft. Lauderdale with eight ships. 

Odyssey of the Seas crew will go in a 14-day quarantine again, after eight crew members tested positive for COVID-19. Six team members who tested positive are asymptomatic and two with mild symptoms. They are quarantined on board and are being closely monitored by the ship’s medical team.

The cruise ship MSC Splendida set sail from Trieste, Italy on June 12, becoming the fifth MSC Cruises vessel to resume operations. MSC Splendida will depart each Saturday from Trieste on a 7-night East Mediterranean itinerary along the Adriatic and arrive in Ancona on Sunday and Bari on Tuesday, calling at Corfu (Greece), Split and Dubrovnik in Croatia until 3 July when a stopover will be included

Azamara Staff Captain Kresimir Korona has been promoted to the rank of Captain. The boutique cruise line announced the exciting news yesterday welcoming Captain Kresimir, as the latest addition to the group of accomplished and amazing Azamara Captains.