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Coronavirus, great part of the main crocieristiche companies stops the activity temporary
Also various companies of navigation that operate services of line for passengers stop the ships. The ship yards of Fincantieri close for two weeks
March 16, 2020
After the other all the main world-wide crocieristiche companies have announced the cessation of the activities for less been extended temporary periods more or because of the spread to total level of the coronavirus. Now incontrastati leaders of the field are the time of the two American groups: Carnival Corporation, that he has a fleet of 105 ships to which 16 new units within 2025 will join some to others, and Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), than work 61 ships that will be placed side by side by others 17 new units that will be taken in delivery within 2026.
The second group American has announced the cessation of all the cruises carried out from its marks Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Silversea and TUI Cruises with effect from the midnight of last Saturday, with the forecast to resume the 11 operations next April. The cruises in course will finish as from program and Royal Caribbean Cruises it will assist the passengers for theirs I re-enter at home.
Also the crocieristici marks of Carnival Corporation have announced suspensions of the activities, but the answer to the emergency more is articulated. If Costa Crociere and Princess Cruises have communicated the temporary suspension of the cruises, the first with effect until on 3 April and the second one until on 10 May(of the 13 and 12 March 2020), the brands Carnival Cruise Line, Cunard, Holland America Line and Seabourn have announced that they will stop the North American activities for a month: Carnival Cruise Line will return on 10 April in service; Cunard has not still communicated the date of restart of the activities; Holland America Line has cancelled the cruises in program until on 14 April; also Seabourn has not still specified when they recommence the cruises. Also Australian brand P&O Cruises Australia has communicated the suspension of the activities for a month, with forecast to restart them on 12 April. For the time being, instead, British brand P&O Cruises (UK) has been limited to bring modifications to the crocieristici routes. The German brand AIDA Cruises, that the Carnival group is under responsibility of through Costa Crociere, so as the Italian brand has announced the temporary suspension of the activities for a short period, specifying that it will at the beginning resume them of April.
An other main operator of the crocieristica, the MSC Cruises, has instead stopped temporary all the activities based in the United States until on 30 April, is cancelling the cruises in program in the Arabic Emirates and has cancelled the MSC cruises Opera in the Mediterranean until on 21 April and in the same region he has modified the routes of Huge MSC, while in Antilless he is cancelling the cruises of Precious MSC until on 28 March.
At last Norwegian Cruise Line has announced the temporary suspension of the activities of own fleet, with the objective to resume the services from on 12 April.
The decision to stop the marine and tourist activities is temporary not assumed solo from shipowning societies of the industry of the cruises, but also from numerous other companies of navigation, mainly among those that they transport passengers. Between these, the Tunisian Companies Tunisienne de Navigation (CTN), that it has communicated to have to light established the suspension of crossings between Tunisia and France (Marseilles) and Italy (Genoa) until next 4 April of the relative developments to the epidemic of the coronavirus. The spread of the contagions in all Europe has induced also nordeuropee companies to adopt the same measures, between which the Stena Line, that it has suspended until new communication the marine services between Denmark and Poland because of the restrictions taxes from the authorities of the two nations, and the Tallink, that it has suspended the service Tallin-Stockholm.
In Italy also the public navalmeccanica is stopped. Fincantieri has decided to suspend the productive activities in the Italian sites of the group from tomorrow on 29 March, arranging of the closing - it has specified the company - with resource to vacation collective, anticipating them regarding the enjoyment in the customary summery period. Specifying moreover that this measure was demanded by the unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm, Fincantieri has explained that "such decision is taken in the knowledge that the suspension of the activities for a period of 14 days is coherent with the indications taxes from the sanitary authorities in topic of quarantine to the aim to reduce the contagion possibilities, to answer to the governmental measures of restriction, let alone to allow with all the workers to place in being adequate behaviors in order to face the emergency. The adopted modality, with the normalization of the situation - law in a note of the navalmeccanico group - would allow to share "stomach to earth" in order to safeguard the future of the company and of the Country and, moreover, it will not be translate in an economic loss for the workers. Only in this way, without no real sacrifice regarding the state of emergency of Italy, we will be able not to prejudice our future, to safeguard the operating continuity of the company, the maintenance of the occupational levels and the credibility earned from Fincantieri with own national and foreign customers and this last one will be able to find the assurance, to standardized situation, than the next deliveries they will be respected fulfilling to the contract expirations".
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