Cruise ship crews to be repatriated via Rotterdam again
This week three more cruise ships will arrive in Rotterdam, reports the Port Authority. They are coming to repatriate crew of the Holland America Group. Due to the corona crisis, many cruises have been cancelled...Read more
Regal Princess to drop off cruise ship crews in Rotterdam
Cruise ship Regal Princess is expected to arrive at Cruiseport Rotterdam on Wednesday 6 May at 7 am. The cruise ship is not carrying holiday makers, but is bringing 1000 Dutch and other European crew...Read more
Wärtsilä to design expedition cruise ships for Amundsen
Wärtsilä will develop a customised design for up to six new luxury cruise vessels capable of polar and tropical expeditions.The ships will be owned and operated by Amundsen Expeditions and are targeted primarily at the...Read more
Meyer Werft: No orders for new cruise ships expected until 2023/24
With COVID-19, modern cruising faces the biggest crisis in its history, which will also heavily impact the cruise ship builders. According to Meyer Werft Managing Director Thomas Weigend, difficult measures need to be taken to...Read more
Handful of passengers still stuck on ‘ghost ship’ Rotterdam
At least five passengers are still stuck on Holland America Line’s cruise ship Rotterdam. Together with sister ship Zaandam, it was not allowed to berth anywhere for a long time because of the coronavirus. At...Read more
Evacuation corona cruise ship Zaandam completed
According to American media, the evacuation of passengers of Holland America Line’s cruise ship Zaandam in Florida has been completed. All passengers who are not infected with the coronavirus have now flown home. The sick...Read moreFourteen people have disembarked from cruise ship Zaandam
The cruise ship Zaandam and the assisting cruise ship Rotterdam have moored in the harbour of the city of Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Fourteen people were disembarked and taken to two hospitals. According to the authorities,...Read more
HAL presents disembarkation plan for cruise ships, awaiting U.S. approval
Holland America Line still hopes to disembark guests from Zaandam and Rotterdam in Fort Lauderdale. Healthy guests are to fly home immediately, guests with symptoms will remain on board. Less than ten are in need...Read more
President HAL fears more deaths on board cruise ship Zaandam
The President of the Holland America Line (HAL) fears the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus on board the Zaandam will go up if the ship is not allowed to dock in Florida. In...Read moreOne of the deceased on board cruise ship Zaandam was Dutch
Among the four people who died from the coronavirus on board of the cruise ship Zaandam is a Dutch passenger. This is what Minister Stef Blok (Foreign Affairs) has written to the Dutch House of...Read moreFlorida doesn’t want “dumped” passengers from corona ship Zaandam
Florida does not want passengers on the cruise ship Zaandam who may have been infected with the coronavirus to be “dumped” there. That’s what the governor of the southern U.S. state, Ron DeSantis, says. According to...Read more
Celebrity Cruises takes virtual delivery of new cruise ship
The corona crisis forces companies to come up with creative solutions. Celebrity Cruises has had to take virtual delivery of its new cruise ship, the Celebrity Apex. Official command of the vessel was accepted via...Read moreCruise ships HAL can cross Panama Canal, but still looking for port
The Panama Canal Authority has granted permission to Holland America Line to transit its cruise ships Zaandam and Rotterdam through the Panama Canal. The Zaandam was refused access to a South American port after the...Read moreCorona deaths on board Zaandam, evac planned with other cruise ship
The coronavirus has been detected on Holland America Line’s cruise ship Zaandam, which is currently off the coast of Panama. Four passengers have died. The company plans to use its other cruise ship Rotterdam to...Read more
Fine for cruise ship Oasis of the Seas revoked
The court in The Hague disagrees with the fine imposed on shipping company Royal Carribean Cruise Ltd in 2014. The fine was imposed for employing foreign workers on cruise ship Oasis of the Seas. The...Read moreHAL sends cruise ship Rotterdam to supply the Zaandam
30 guests and 47 crew have now reported to cruise ship Zaandam’s medical center with influenza-like symptoms. Since all ports along Zaandam’s route are closed to cruise ships, Holland America Line has deployed the Rotterdam...Read more
Coronavirus found on surfaces cruise ship Diamond Princess after 17 days
The coronavirus remains traceable on surfaces for up to seventeen days says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after research on cruise ship Diamond Princess. The organisation detected the virus on a...Read moreHAL continues to struggle with debarkation of passengers
Holland America Line’s cruise ships Maasdam and Zaandam still have their passengers on board. The Maasdam was refused permission to disembark passengers in Hawaii due to corona measures. The same is true for the Zaandam...Read more