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Royal Caribbean Cruises cancels 18 cruises in Asia
Carnival also calculates the likely impact of coronavirus on its business. Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady was unveiled in Genoa
February 14, 2020
It is an impact similar to that estimated by the compatriot Carnival Corporation, which has quantified in 0.55-0.65 dollars effect on 2020 financial performance if the group should suspend all its operations in Asia until the end of next April.
A new cruise line that won't have to supposedly face travel restrictions caused by the diffusion of the coronavirus, which has its epicenter in China, is Virgin Voyages by Richard Branson's Virgin group, which planned to use its first ships mainly in the Caribbean and Mediterranean. Yesterday in Genoa, in the Fincantieri to Sestri Ponente, the Scarlet was presented Lady,the first of four cruise ships commissioned from the company to the Italian naval engineering group. La Scarlet Lady,who will be employed in the Caribbean, has a size 110,000 tonnes, is 278 metres long and wide 38. Her twin, Valiant Lady,currently under construction at the same site, will be delivered in 2021, while the third and fourth units, as yet unnamed, will take the 2022 and 2023, respectively. Virgin's four ships Voyages will all be equipped with more than 1,400 cabins capable of more than 2,770 passengers, assisted by a crew 1,160 people.
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It is an impact similar to that estimated by the compatriot Carnival Corporation, which has quantified in 0.55-0.65 dollars effect on 2020 financial performance if the group should suspend all its operations in Asia until the end of next April.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
