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Norwegian Spirit has skipped two New Zealand ports so far - Lyttelton and Napier.

Tbh I can't really understand why Sydney (Cape Breton Island) was cancelled as well. According to windy.com's forecast, the storm will be gone by then:

The map shows the wind forecast for Monday 6 a.m. local time.

I was on the very first river cruise in Covid times at the end of June, 7 days from Engelhartszell in Austria to Vienna, Esztergom, Budapest, Bratislava, Melk and back. It was aboard the A-Rosa Mia, a ship mainly based towards the German-speaking countries.

Yes, I had to wear a mask when I walked from my cabin to the exit or the restaurant, but that didn't cause any uncomfortable feeling imo. As soon as I reached the outside, the open deck or my seat in the restaurant/lounge I took off the mask and it felt like being on a normal cruise.

We could explore the destinations on our own (I did), docked at every planned stop and I had a great time aboard.

So, today AIDA announced that all planned cruises to nowhere til mid-August (three with AIDAperla, one with AIDAmar) had to be cancelled as the Italian authorities didn't give their go for the hygienic concept in time. It was also said that this delay is the reason why Costa and MSC Cruises haven't yet announced their new one-week itineraries planned for the end of August.

All cruises beginning Aug 16 and further ahead are scheduled to take place. Although I highly doubt that this is 100 percent sure considering the reaction of these authorities to a concept that is actually even more strict than the one by TUI Cruises.

According to Marinetraffic the next stop will be Great Stirrup Cay instead of Ponta Delgada, arriving there on 5 Dec at 7 AM local time.

That may explain why she went at 17 knots at night and at around 13 knots at daytime during the day at sea yesterday from Argostoli to Venice.

Btw: her next scheduled stop ist Bar, Montenegro. Not unusual (due to missing Kotor many times they always replaced it with a technical stop at Bar). But: this time the arrival time is 5:30 AM and not in the evening. This means that at least one stop (probably Dubrovnik) will be canceled.

What is wrong with this ship?!

Marinetraffic says that the Star is headed to Split, Croatia arriving at the local pilot station at 11 a.m. CET, although the schedule says the ships should be heading to Kotor.

According to Marinetraffic the next port will be Barbados on Saturday arriving 7:30 LT. Any idea how the rest of the itinerary will look like?

I followed the track of MSC Orchestra in the past few days. After arriving offshore Itajaí the ship decided to wait for a few hours at open sea before docking at the river port between 11:30 and 6 p.m. on Saturday. The ship then docked in Rio on Sunday from 2 to 11 p.m. and achored off Ilhabela today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. I expected them to go back to Buenos Aires now but instead the next destination listed on Marinetraffic is (again) Itajaí with ETA 6 a.m. tomorrow. Looks like they want to check the live boats there again.

I wonder if this means they dock at Amber Cove, a Carnival-owned port (what I heavily doubt) or at the old town port in Puerto Plata itself without any infrastructure for cruise pax.

I read on Cruisetricks.de (German cruise expert website) that they already assessed the damages at anchor in Punta del Este two days ago and now decided to substitute Buzios with Itajaí. The ship arrived at the anchorage position in Itajaí at 8:00 LT. Not sure if they are too large to dock at the river cruise pier or if they need to anchor offshore due to the damages.

There will still be a full day and an evening in Darwin so it could be worse. And the health of a human being is more important than an excursion.

Considering the itinerary was changed (from Maui-Hilo-Kona-Kauai to Kauai-Hilo-Kona-Maui) and that the ship skipped Kahului yesterday, they probably tried to give the passengers at least one day on Maui by anchoring off Lahaina. If I follow the past track at Marinetraffic this seemed to fail and so they tried to anchor in the more protected bay near Maalea, which ultimately also failed.

I wonder how @mking8288 calculated these 1160 nm, if I measure the distance from SJU to FPO via the Marinetraffic distance measuring tool and placing the track north of Turk & Caicos, I get to around 860 nm which means the ship would have to do 17.2 knots to arrive there at 20:00 local time on Friday.

The usual itinerary sees a departure in Charlotte Amalie at 2. p.m. on Wednesday and an arrival at Great Stirrup Cay at 9 a.m. on Friday which is a much further distance than from San Juan to GSC.

According to Marinetraffic the next planned stop ins BS FPO (Freeport, Bahamas) with an arrival at 8 p.m. local time on Friday. This probably means that the following cruise will start 1-2 days later or get canceled completely.

Searching Instagram I found out that Costa Serena, Atlantica, Fortuna and neoRomantica (so all ships currently travelling Asia) are still missing the new hull design while all others (cruising the Caribbean, Emirates, Mediterranean etc.) seem to have it.

Jade is currently leaving San Juan at a speed indicating it is not being towed but sailing by own thrust.

Considering the rumour of a drydock in Freeport, Bahamas is true and the Jade will be travelling at 5 kts, it will already take 7 days at sea to get from SJ to Freeport. Repairing may take more than a few days so I highly doubt the following cruise will take place.

Sounds very true and understandable what you wrote there. Hopefully you will get a credit on future cruises

There are regulations when you dock in St Petersburg you have to stay over night. Not sure why. Think it has something to do with customs.

AIDA Cruises regularly stays in St. Petersburg for one day only (e. g. on their weekly tour from Warnemünde with AIDAmar)

The Breakaway is currently cruising at around 13 knots to Copenhagen. I would feel hoaxed if I was aboard and they told me that skipping another port was necessary to make it there on time.

Well she could have left St. Petersburg after one day and dock at Helsinki today. Then one day at sea to Warnemünde and on Tuesday back in Copenhagen.

She just departed from the cruise pier. Considering the arrival time given she should make it there with 20 knots

Star has just announced Bar, Montenegro as her next stop according to MarineTraffic. 22-23 knots needed if she departs immediatedly and wants to arrive there at 4 p.m. (arrival time at this port last year on their first ever stop there).

UPD: okay, they added the arrival time at the local pilot of 18:15 (!). Seems like they want to stay there only for the evening.