Tagged: Cruise & Maritime Voyages

Two UK cruise ships have been scrapped on an Indian beach despite assurances they would continue to be operated. Ships at the end of their lives are considered hazardous waste and it is illegal to send them to developing countries from the UK. (bbc.com)

The Magellan, built in 1985 for Carnival Cruise Lines, departed the anchorage near Oman in the Persian Gulf today under the names Mages heading east to India, where she is expected to arrive at the end of the week. (maritime-executive.com)

The classic Marco Polo is heading to the scrap yard in Alang, India, according to a source familiar with the ship. “The Marco Polo is headed for the beach,” they said. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The Astor will be scrapped after being essentially beached in Turkey on Monday. The former Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV) vessel sold at auction to a scrap broker in October for just $1.7 million. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The Cruise & Maritime Voyages fleet auction is over, with five ships heading to new owners or to scrap, and the values have finally been revealed as buyers were able to get cruise ships for pennies on the dollar during the sealed bidding process. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Five ships from Cruise & Maritime Voyages will be auctioned off via CW Kellock & Co in October as five separate lots. All ships are in Tilbury and can be inspected by arrangement, with the exception of the Marco Polo, which is tied up in Avonmouth and can also be inspected. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Christian Verhounig, formerly CEO of Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV) that entered administration earlier in the summer, has acquired certain assets of the company, with an aim to launch a new cruise operator, media reports in the UK said. (cruisebusiness.com)

Puerto Peñasco’s dream to have a cruise line regularly sailing out of its port has hit rough waters. The company that took the risk to launch that first cruise earlier this year has declared bankruptcy. Cruise and Maritime Voyages posted on its website that it has filed for administration —or bankruptcy — in the United Kingdom. (eu.azcentral.com)

Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV) has been placed into administration in the UK, while TransOcean Tours (owned by CMV) is facing the same scenario in Germany. All departures have been cancelled for CMV and TransOcean. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

A British-based cruise operator which has been at the centre of a repatriation row involving hundreds of crew is in eleventh-hour talks with potential investors in a desperate bid to stay afloat. (news.sky.com)

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has been assisting hundreds of seafarers aboard the six Global Cruise Lines’ vessels currently in Tilbury and Bristol, in the United Kingdom. (more…)

Five cruised ships from the same company have been detained by British authorities over concerns for crew welfare. Britain’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) revealed that it inspected six ships from Global Cruise Lines Limited on Friday and that five have been detained. (euronews.com)

The British Maritime and Coast Guard Agency has detained a number of Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV) ships that are currently laid up in London Tilbury and Bristol Avonmouth following an inspection earlier in the week. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Sky News has learnt that Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV) is in emergency talks with lenders and potential investors following the eleventh-hour collapse of a potential rescue deal. (news.sky.com)

Cruise and Maritime Voyages are excited to have launched two new themed cruises for 2021; an “Easter” theme cruise and a ‘Back to the 80s’ theme cruise. Marco Polo sails on an Easter 10-night British Isles Discovery cruise from London Tilbury 1 April 2021. (more…)