Maritime History

• How or why is there two P&O Cruise brands? One for Australia and Another in the UK. Thanks to Listener Carl for the question.

Cruise News

• Seabourn further extends pause of operations with the last ship now expected to return to service in May 2021
• Azamara & Celebrity announce the cancellation of the 2020/21 AU/NZ season.
• NCLH extends global pause for NCL, Oceania and Regent through to 30 Nov 2020.
• Singapore will kick start cruises for Singaporeans from 6 Nov with Genting’s World Dream offering SeaCations to nowhere. Royal Caribbean will follow in Dec 2020.
• Viking Celebrates 6 months of Viking TV.
• MSC receives RINA’s Biosafe additional class notation for infection risk mitigation.

Listener questions

• Brenda asks about gratuities on Australian cruises
• Adam asked for advice on choosing a south Pacific cruise from either Brisbane or Sydney

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