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…catering for German travellers have been most active in cancelling, due to Germany’s stricter lockdown where non-essential travel for recreation purposes is not allowed. Carnival’s AIDA line has paused all cruises planned for November, as has the Royal Caribbean part-owned Hapag-Lloyd line while their other part-owned line, Mein Schiff, has cancelling its remaining 2020 cruise program from Kiel with the Mein Schiff 1, which was sailing cruises to…

…incorporated in tax-friendly countries, and not in the United States, UK, Germany and so on, they could not get any state bailouts like airlines and other travel groups have had to tide them over. So that is the bad news! What is the good news? The good news is that to date only a handful of around 5 smaller lines have disappeared, like Cruise & Maritime out of the UK and Pullmantur (a Spanish joint venture with Royal Caribbean). And the really g…

…the USA? This is possible. Remember we already have cruises out of Italy, Germany, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore. Royal Caribbean has arranged for Grandeur of the Seas to homeport out of Barbados. I have previously reported that Norwegian Group has indicated to their crew that they are exploring starting up in Europe before the USA. Royal Caribbean are saying that when cruising does return, it will be in a phased approach, and also may resume soone…