Cruises diverted away from Somali pirate threat
Sunday, 18 May, 2009
0
A cruise line is abandoning voyages through the Suez Canal and Red Sea following an attack on one of its ships by Somali priates.
MSC Cruises is instead sail from Livorno in Italy down the west coast of Africa to reach Durban via Cape Town.
Calls will be made Morocco, Senegal and Namibia en route to Cape Town and Durban.
These itineraries will be served by the luxurious MSC Sinfonia for the 2009 autumn and 2010 late spring seasons.
“The new routes represent decisive action by MSC Cruises to completely remove any threat to its passengers from Somali pirates, following a recent episode involving MSC Melody, which successfully evaded a pirate attempt some 600 nautical miles from the Somali coast on the evening of Saturday, April 25, 2009,” a company statement said.
“MSC Cruises’s decision to re-route all its African transoceaniccruises completely removes the possibility of any further pirate incidents.”
by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
Have your say Cancel reply
Most Read
TRAINING & COMPETITION
Posting....
Skip to toolbar
Clearing CSS/JS assets' cache... Please wait until this notice disappears...
Updating... Please wait...
Subscribe/Login to Travel Mole Newsletter
Travel Mole Newsletter is a subscriber only travel trade news publication. If you are receiving this message, simply enter your email address to sign in or register if you are not. In order to display the B2B travel content that meets your business needs, we need to know who are and what are your business needs. ITR is free to our subscribers.































TAP Air Portugal to operate 29 flights due to strike on December 11
Qatar Airways offers flexible payment options for European travellers
Airlines suspend Madagascar services following unrest and army revolt
Strike action set to cause travel chaos at Brussels airports
Digital Travel Reporter of the Mirror totally seduced by HotelPlanner AI Travel Agent