{"id":20202,"date":"2020-10-27T16:49:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/covid19-cruise-lines-cancel-antarctica-cruises\/20202\/"},"modified":"2020-10-27T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:49:05","slug":"covid19-cruise-lines-cancel-antarctica-cruises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/covid19-cruise-lines-cancel-antarctica-cruises\/20202\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID19: Cruise Lines Cancel Antarctica Cruises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> cruise <\/span>line announced in September that it had cancelled all remaining<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> cruise<\/span>s this year because of the rise in COVID-19 cases in Europe and the Americas.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/cruise-lines-stock-crash-november-2020\/\">RELATED ARTICLE: Cruise Line Stocks Crash Further<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting large parts of the world and travel restrictions and quarantine requirements are widespread and changing rapidly,\u201d the company said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Demand for its expedition<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> cruise<\/span>s for the second half of 2021 and into 2022, however, is strong and many customers have chosen to postpone rather than cancel, it added.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In mid-June the company was the first<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> cruise <\/span>operator worldwide to return an oceangoing<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> cruise <\/span>ship to service after the coronavirus outbreak, touting reduced passenger capacity, social distancing and strict rules on hygiene.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/at-least-40-test-positive-for-covid-19-from-ms-roald-amundsen\/\">RELATED ARTICLE: At Least 40 Test Positive from MS Roald Amundsen COVID-19 Outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>However, dozens of crew and passengers on a Hurtigruten ship tested positive for the virus after an Arctic<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> cruise <\/span>in July, triggering a police investigation into the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The company said that only two ships will operate a limited service between Bodoe and Kirkenes in northern Norway in November. (Reporting by Victoria Klesty Editing by David Goodman)<\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cruise line announced in September that it had cancelled all remaining cruises this year because of the rise in COVID-19 cases in Europe and the Americas. RELATED ARTICLE: Cruise Line Stocks Crash Further \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting large parts of the world and travel restrictions and quarantine requirements are widespread and changing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[8725,3889,1154,1153,1964,3054],"class_list":["post-20202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-antarctica","tag-cancel","tag-covid19","tag-cruise","tag-cruises","tag-lines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20202","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=20202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/20203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}