VIDEO: Navy to deploy hospital ship Mercy to Los Angeles

In a matter of days, the Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy will sail from San Diego and dock in the Port of Los Angeles to help lift the burden from local medical

Ingalls Shipbuilding employee tests positive for coronavirus

An employee at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding has tested positive for the coronavirus. In a message to Ingalls employees dated yesterday, Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said that the shipbuilder is

Car carrier giant to cut fleet size

Oslo, Norway, headquartered RO/RO specialist Wallenius Wilhelmsen says that, with the coronavirus situation evolving rapidly across the globe, it is taking precautionary steps to adjust its operations and safeguard its liquidity going

Plea to UN agencies: Recognize seafarers as international key workers

As coronavirus-related travel and other restrictions increase, the International Chamber of Shipping and the International Transport Workers’ Federation have written a joint open letter to the heads of four United Nations agencies

VIDEO: IMO Sec Gen urges “practical and pragmatic approach” to coronavirus challenge

Kitack Lim, Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is urging “a practical and pragmatic approach, in these unusual times, to issues like crew changeovers, resupply, repairs, survey and certification and

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Carnival to make cruise ships available as temporary hospitals

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), today announced that select cruise ships from the company’s global cruise line brands, including Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and P&O

American Queen Steamboat Company suspends operations

The impact of the coronavirus outbreak on cruising is not confined to a 30-day halt in CLIA members’ ocean cruises from U.S. ports. American Queen Steamboat Company (AQSC) has announced that it

Costa cruise ship trio quarantined while under repair in Japan

MHI Group member Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. has won orders from Costa Crociere S.p.A. for repairs and maintenance work on its cruise ships Costa Atlantica, Costa Venezia and Costa Serena. Costa Atlantica