Aplmac Posted April 1, 2020 #76 Share Posted April 1, 2020 4 hours ago, flyingron said: Maybe they should go back to their home ports. These countries should have some obligation to providing the flags. ===> Maybe so! Barbados is glad to have them -for more than just one reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted April 1, 2020 #77 Share Posted April 1, 2020 This evening's Ship Pics from Barbados and likely to be the last for some time? because we are expecting bad news of a 24/7 lockdown to be announced tonight on local island-TV @ 7 p.m.! So wish us Luck! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted April 3, 2020 #78 Share Posted April 3, 2020 This evening's cruise ship pics from Carlisle Bay, Barbados. On marinetraffic.com I notice there are 3 or 4 of them out there - miles offshore - they'll be back soon! But for now it's just these ships. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jocap Posted April 3, 2020 #79 Share Posted April 3, 2020 On 4/1/2020 at 11:13 PM, Aplmac said: This evening's Ship Pics from Barbados and likely to be the last for some time? because we are expecting bad news of a 24/7 lockdown to be announced tonight on local island-TV @ 7 p.m.! So wish us Luck! Yes, I'll wish you luck.. we're almost at the end of our 3rd week of lock down, and it's not all been bad. Even our daily walk reveals a village much as it was 70 years or more back, without a vehicle in sight ( except for the police); people are falling over themselves to volunteer to help the elderly/underlying illnesses; the whole nation gathers outside their doors or hangs from the window of their flats on Thursday evening to clap the NHS and other carers; there's a general air of friendliness and care around. I hope the atmosphere is similar in Barbados. xx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted April 3, 2020 #80 Share Posted April 3, 2020 44 minutes ago, jocap said: Yes, I'll wish you luck.. we're almost at the end of our 3rd week of lock down, and it's not all been bad. Even our daily walk reveals a village much as it was 70 years or more back, without a vehicle in sight ( except for the police); people are falling over themselves to volunteer to help the elderly/underlying illnesses; the whole nation gathers outside their doors or hangs from the window of their flats on Thursday evening to clap the NHS and other carers; there's a general air of friendliness and care around. I hope the atmosphere is similar in Barbados. xx Today's supermarkets in Barbados.. it was like Christmas Eve last-minute-rush --only worse. Government will be adapting their population controls over the weekend and hopefully next week will be more orderly. Lockdown has now been set back from 5 p.m. (why??) to the usual 8 p.m. Much better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted April 26, 2020 #81 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Still stuck in Barbados! Sunday 26th. April. We're down to five cruise ships now, in our waters.. but they're starting to leave, one by one. Kinda sad to see them go, but they must. Vision OTS and AIDAluna -anchored in Carlisle Bay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted May 1, 2020 #82 Share Posted May 1, 2020 TWO Carnivals steamed into Bridgetown Port this afternoon around 5 p.m. Carnival VALOR first, and then Carnival FREEDOM a bit later. Crew are being repatriated, I'm told. Knowing that a few islanders work the Main Dining Rooms on board the ships may be making side-trips to St. Vincent? St. Lucia? and others to get ppl home. That brings our cruise ship total to seven now.. ships that are Here For Now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted May 2, 2020 #83 Share Posted May 2, 2020 11 hours ago, Aplmac said: TWO Carnivals steamed into Bridgetown Port this afternoon around 5 p.m. Carnival VALOR first, and then Carnival FREEDOM a bit later. Crew are being repatriated, I'm told. Knowing that a few islanders work the Main Dining Rooms on board the ships may be making side-trips to St. Vincent? St. Lucia? and others to get ppl home. I am now informed that the above crew members are not from these E. Carib. islands and are heading home on charter flights from our local island airport to various Far East destinations like Manila, Jakarta, etc. NCL did a similar repatriation via charter flights about 2 wks. ago, so this is another such operation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted May 6, 2020 #84 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Two Carnivals have joined 'the Barbados Fleet' - Freedom and Valor -- Glory arrives next week. But for now the three ships at anchor in Carlisle Bay that seem to be permanent fixtures these days are the same three - Vision, Luna and Odyssey Look carefully.. you might see other ships on the far horizon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted May 17, 2020 #85 Share Posted May 17, 2020 IN between now and then, I've had a STEMI heart attack! but that aside.. ships have been coming and going while I was out of commission. On marinetraffic.com I've just seen two Carnivals beating a hasty retreat at around 14 kts. halfway over to St. Lucia, obviously going somewhere, as a pair! AIDAluna and Seabourn Odyssey now seem to be almost-permanent fixtures, they've been here so long! Caribbean Princess is a new arrival. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipgeeks Posted May 17, 2020 #86 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Aplmac, Your news is significant! I hope you are now well, and will continue to be so. I've missed your excellent photos, and your updates. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted May 17, 2020 #87 Share Posted May 17, 2020 7 hours ago, shipgeeks said: Aplmac, Your news is significant! I hope you are now well, and will continue to be so. ===> Thank you. I've missed your excellent photos, and your updates. Greatly improved, and continuing daily! Onward and upward. I just had a look at the local Port schedule to come for the next few weeks and it would appear that HARMONY of the Seas shall linger with us for quite a while Have a look at this schedule thru to next month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted May 17, 2020 #88 Share Posted May 17, 2020 And here's a fabulous aerial-drone pic of ships in Carlisle Bay - taken while I was 'otherwise occupied' -- lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jocap Posted May 18, 2020 #89 Share Posted May 18, 2020 I said somewhere on the site that Carnival co had organised all Indian crew members in the UK, from P&O/Cunard ships, to return home on Ventura, and there was a great movement of people from the ships ready for last Tuesday's sailing. At the last minute, the Indian Government agreed that all these crew members could fly home, so the ship returned to her dock. Perhaps this has happened to other Carnival owned ship moored near you, Aplmac? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted May 18, 2020 #90 Share Posted May 18, 2020 1 hour ago, jocap said: I said somewhere on the site that Carnival co had organised all Indian crew members in the UK, from P&O/Cunard ships, to return home on Ventura, and there was a great movement of people from the ships ready for last Tuesday's sailing. At the last minute, the Indian Government agreed that all these crew members could fly home, so the ship returned to her dock. Perhaps this has happened to other Carnival owned ship moored near you, Aplmac? I was six days in the local Hospital, so I was completely out of touch with local marine happenings - something I was following via observation and via marinetraffic.com. Even when I got out, I wasn't paying much attention so there's a big gap there... I know that while I was in, there were quite a few Carnival ships around and I missed the whole ruddy lot! Fairly sure they have now come and gone while I wasn't looking. What they were doing here, I don't know but wouldn't be surprised if they were getting crew onto charter flights home-bound from our local airport. I know there's been a bit of that going on over the past few weeks/month, so there is now an established procedure for others to follow. I haven't heard from my usual source of info, so I'm pretty much in the dark! There were five ships in/around Carlisle Bay/Port this evening Two Princesses (Emerald and Caribbean) and the usual AIDAluna and Odessey with Explorer of the Seas alongside in the Port and Serenade of the Sea offshore somewhere. That's it!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipmaster Posted May 19, 2020 #91 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Wish someone could get a closer shot of this group 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted May 20, 2020 #92 Share Posted May 20, 2020 This info release from our Gov't. Information Service just an hour ago.... Two people tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday out of a total of 163 tests conducted by the local Laboratory. They are a 58-year-old Barbadian woman, who arrived in the island yesterday and whose case is under investigation, and a 42-year-old crew member of one of the cruise ships off Barbados, who was transferred from the ship for emergency medical treatment. This is not good news for the other guys on his ship!! ____________________________ Further to that bad news the local Civil Aviation Authority released this Directive that we shall not be accepting incoming tourist passengers until the end of JUNE! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted May 27, 2020 #93 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Cruise ships oriented to Barbados for now, sitting out the Covid Crisis! HARMONY of the Seas is here to facilitate repatriation of some 4,000 crew members via air, from our island airport, going home to Europe and the Far East RFA 'Argus' is a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel stationed here for the Hurricane Season, in case 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted June 23, 2020 #94 Share Posted June 23, 2020 A Special Thank You -from Royal Caribbean! https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/246281/special-thank-royal-caribbean-cruises 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Hlitner Posted June 23, 2020 #95 Share Posted June 23, 2020 So, where are the ships? Probably the biggest concentration is in Manila Bay, Philippines. I just took a look and there are now 29 ships (from many cruise lines) in and around Manila. Why? I have no clue. Some would say they are there because they took crew home, but that does not explain that many vessels. Hank 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navybankerteacher Posted June 23, 2020 #96 Share Posted June 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Hlitner said: So, where are the ships? Probably the biggest concentration is in Manila Bay, Philippines. I just took a look and there are now 29 ships (from many cruise lines) in and around Manila. Why? I have no clue. Some would say they are there because they took crew home, but that does not explain that many vessels. Hank It would make sense for ships which had taken crew home, and were awaiting future use, to remain in the area to facilitate re-staffing — after all, they would be likely to draw from the same population once they re-manned. The ships have to hang around somewhere -and a great number of cruise ships are heavily staffed by Filipinos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slidergirl Posted June 23, 2020 #97 Share Posted June 23, 2020 There are about 7 hanging out around Port Canaveral, Disney and Carnival. They rotate coming into port for provisioning. They make for great photos out there off the beach in Cocoa Beach! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted June 24, 2020 #98 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Here in Barbados we seem to routinely have 10 or so cruise ships hanging around - usually 5 or 6 anchored in the Bay (or in port taking supplies?) and another 5 or so, just offshore somewhere, biding time. AIDAluna has been here SO LONG now, she is a permanent fixture. - at least 2 months if not more! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Essiesmom Posted June 24, 2020 #99 Share Posted June 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Aplmac said: Here in Barbados we seem to routinely have 10 or so cruise ships hanging around - usually 5 or 6 anchored in the Bay (or in port taking supplies?) and another 5 or so, just offshore somewhere, biding time. AIDAluna has been here SO LONG now, she is a permanent fixture. - at least 2 months if not more! How much longer for her to be considered a citizen? EM 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EscapeFromConnecticut Posted June 25, 2020 #100 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Sadly, Alang is likely the destination for a few.https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/cruise-industry-downsizing-begins-with-first-sale-of-a-ship-for-scraphttps://thepointsguy.com/guide/cruise-ship-sold-scrap-list/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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