Tag: cruise season

• Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Brazil's Sanitary regulator strongly recommends suspending the cruise season: Covid-19 in several vessels

  

  Brazil's National Sanitary Surveillance Agency, ANVISA has advised the suspension of the cruise season because of several covid-19 outbreaks onboard pleasure vessels sailing along the Brazilian coast.

• Saturday, November 13th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Cruise season starts in Buenos Aires with arrival of first ship

  

  Buenos Aires' cruise season has kicked off with the arrival at the Argentine capital's river port of the US-flagged World Navigator carrying some 100 passengers from Europe, the United States and Canada.

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Antarctica cruises Atlas Ocean Voyages will operate from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego celebrates

  

  An Antarctica cruise company, Atlas Ocean Voyages will begin operating from Ushuaia, the capital of the extreme south Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego. According to local media reports, the first call out of fifteen will take place next November.

• Monday, October 4th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Some hope for this coming cruise season as Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina make public protocols

  

  Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina have announced the vaccine certificates and protocols which will be demanded from cruise vessel passengers and crewmembers this coming summer season if they are to call in the three countries as part of their South American tours.

• Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 08:33 UTC

  Celebration in Ushuaia: cruise season authorized to begin on 20 October

  

  It's official, Argentina announced the opening of the 2021/2022 bi-oceanic and Antarctic cruise season next 20 October. The administrative resolution 834/2021 was published in the Official Gazette, triggering immediate satisfaction from Tierra del Fuego province whose governor contacted the Tourism and Sports minister Matías Lammens.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:36 UTC

  Punta Arenas expects 40 vessels and 226 calls for the 2021/22 cruise season starting next October

  

  Punta Arenas port authorities announced over the weekend that they expect the 2021/22 cruise season to begin next 19 October when “Sylvia Earle” calls at Chile's extreme south terminal. She will be the first of some 226 calls, so far, from forty international cruise vessels to which must be added those from domestic companies.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina has over a million virus cases despite a record quarantine

  

  At the extreme end of Argentina in a city known as “The End of the World,” many thought they might be spared from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Sitting far from Buenos Aires, health workers in Ushuaia were initially able to contain a small outbreak among foreigners hoping to catch boats to the Antarctic at the start of the crisis.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Puerto Madryn 2020/21 cruise season agenda and calls “stand”; first vessel expected 25 October

  

  The head of the port's administration of Puerto Madryn, in Argentine Patagonia, said that so far the coming 2020/21 cruise season “stands”, and the first vessel is scheduled to call in the Chubut province maritime terminal next 25 October, despite the pandemic.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Princess Cruises announces largest ever Australia, New Zealand 2020/21 season

  

  Princess Cruises has announced its largest Australia and New Zealand cruise season ever offered sailing towards some of the world’s most dramatic destinations during the cruise line’s October 2020 to May 2021 season. New for this season, Regal Princess joins sister ship Majestic Princess in Australia, marking the cruise line’s youngest fleet to sail in this region.

• Friday, April 19th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  Falklands record season of cruise visitors: 62.505 and expects 70.000 in 2019/20

  

  Representatives from all sectors of the Falkland Islands tourism industry met at Government House on Wednesday evening for the annual presentation of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board (FITB) awards and to celebrate a cruise ship season which brought 62,505 passengers to the islands.