For the first time in modern history, a complete shipping branch came to a total standstill in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic had reached the cruise industry and paralyzed it. All operators, including the big US-based concerns Carnival and Royal Caribbean, but also the inland cruise operators nearly simultaneously announced the suspending of all their cruise activities, by this following the recommendation of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA). When port authorities had announced, that they would not grant the ships permission to enter, the cruise liners had to be retracted from service, assembled at the world’s main cruise hotspots or returned to their homelands, where they were laid up. This meant the abrupt end of the cruise business. Germany’s Aida Cruises, a subsidiary of Italy’s Costa Crociere and thus part of the US Carnival group, immediately ended the actual cruises of all its 14 liners (Fig. 10.1).
Cruise Shipping
International Shipping ; Kapitel : 10 ; 597-675
03.11.2022
79 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Special Cruise Shipping - Events — Cruise Shipping Miami 2013
Online Contents | 2013
Special Cruise Shipping - State of the Industry — Cruise Shipping Miami 2012
Online Contents | 2012
Cruise Shipping — Cruise industry 2009 — still booming?
Online Contents | 2009
Schiffbau - Cruise Ships -- Expanding Cruise Shipping Industry
Online Contents | 2007
SCHIFFBAU - Cruise Ships - Changes in cruise shipping
Online Contents | 2002