MSC's Caribbean ships all at Ocean Cay

[Até]

Is MSC is following the other cruise lines lead and gathering all the Caribbean ships off of US territory to transfer crew in preparation to get them home?  It appears the other lines are going to use certain ships to get crew back to their home countries.  If you look on Marine traffic there is currently a very large gathering at all the private islands.  Not a good sign for cruising to get started back any time soon.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/norwegian-carnival-fleets-move-after-the-cdc-blocks-crew-members-2020-4

[Fogfog]

From a marine tracking sight DH has seen many of the ships off of the Bahamas....

and there is some video of MSC ships off of Miami....

 

Someone one f b posted that she heard from crew (they sail monthly) that the crew on the ships at OC... were not allowed off by Bahamian gov. That seems a shame if true.

 

Not far between Miami and OC

 

We noted that Carnival put out a post that a couple of the ships were enroute to take crew back to their regions/nations. So you may find that on a marine tracking site...

 

 

 

 

[neptuno]

Ocean Cay has no shelter for big ships.  There is no way they could mothball their Caribbean fleet there.

[Até]

I don't expect the ships to remain at OC.  Crew were not being allowed to get off the ship nor transfer between ships in US ports.  Crew friends have stated they went to OC so they can move to certain ships which will then leave to take them home.  Meraviglia and Divina were scheduled to leave the US soon anyway, it's a way to for crew getting closer to going home.  But it also has implications as to how long it will take to get the crew back if MSC wants to start back up any time soon.