Tag: sanitary protocol

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  Antarctica cruise season 2021/22 launched in Ushuaia with National Geographic vessels

  

  Argentine Minister of Tourism Matias Lammens and Tierra del Fuego governor Gustavo Melella officially opened the 2021/22 cruise season this Monday, in Ushuaia, with the arrival of “National Geographic Endurance”, which tomorrow leaves for Antarctica.

• Saturday, September 4th 2021 - 10:22 UTC

  Chilean company announces first Antarctic cruise on 3 December, from Punta Arenas

  

  A Chilean company Antarctica21 is planning 17 Antarctica cruises this coming season, leaving from Punta Arenas, the first of which is scheduled for December 3rd, with an only vessel the Magellan Explorer.

• Tuesday, August 31st 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Chile announces sanitary protocol for tourists on cruise expeditions to Antarctica

  

  Chile announced on Monday that foreign tourists on cruise expeditions to Antarctica can call and land in the country as long as they comply with a strict sanitary protocol. Andrea Wolleter, head of Chile's tourism services made the announcement following on reiterated petitions from organizations linked to the tourism industry as well as regional and city officials.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 12:30 UTC

  Sanitary aircraft on Thursday will fly “Greg Mortimer” cruise Australians to Melbourne

  

  A charter flight is expected in Montevideo on Thursday, April 9 to pick up and fly home to Australia most of passengers and crew on the “Greg Mortimer”, the cruise vessel stranded off the coast of Uruguay for the last two weeks because 128 people on board have tested positive for Covid 19.

• Monday, April 6th 2020 - 11:22 UTC

  “Greg Mortimer” off the coast of Uruguay has 81 passengers tested positive

  

  Eighty-one people on the Greg Mortimer cruise ship, which has been stranded off the coast of Uruguay for almost two weeks and has over 90 Australians on board, have tested positive for coronavirus.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil/China finalizing sanitary protocol for soy-meal exports to the Asian giant

  

  Brazilian and Chinese government authorities are finalizing a protocol setting health standards for domestic processors to export soy-meal to the Asian country, André Nassar, president of oilseeds industry group Abiove, announced.