{"id":16833,"date":"2020-09-03T21:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/carnivals-costa-cruises-to-set-sail-this-weekend\/16833\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T21:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:08:03","slug":"carnivals-costa-cruises-to-set-sail-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/carnivals-costa-cruises-to-set-sail-this-weekend\/16833\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival\u2019s Costa Cruises to Set Sail This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Sept 3 (Reuters) \u2013 Carnival Corp\u2019s shares surged 11% on Thursday after its Italian brand Costa Cruises said two of its ships would resume sailing this weekend, with more to follow.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Cruise companies, among the worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, were forced to halt voyages for months after ships in Japan, Australia and California made headlines because of large numbers of infections onboard.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So far this year, Carnival\u2019s shares have lost nearly two-thirds of their value, while peer Royal Caribbean Cruises Group has lost about 45% and Norwegian Cruise Line Holding Ltd about 67%.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Shares of Royal Caribbean were up 6% and Norwegian Cruise rose 8% in morning trading.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Carnival\u2019s German brand AIDA Cruises will resume operations in November with two of its ships sailing from the Canary Islands, it said late last month.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Costa will sail from Italian ports beginning weekly cruises from Genoa and Trieste to western Mediterranean and southern Italy, reserving one-week itineraries exclusively for Italian guests, it said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The cruises will take place with adjusted passenger capacity and health protocols developed with government and health authorities, Carnival said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 3 (Reuters) \u2013 Carnival Corp\u2019s shares surged 11% on Thursday after its Italian brand Costa Cruises said two of its ships would resume sailing this weekend, with more to follow. Cruise companies, among the worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, were forced to halt voyages for months after ships in Japan, Australia and California &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4022,1963,1964,3048,3088,10863],"class_list":["post-16833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-carnivals","tag-costa","tag-cruises","tag-sail","tag-set","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/16834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}