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River cruise specialist, Viva Cruises, is launching four new itineraries on the North and Baltic Seas on board the company’s first ever expedition ship, MS Seaventure. The new cruises will start in April 2021 and have a capacity for just 164 guests. (more…)
Tags: Scylla AG, Viva Cruises
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A German river cruise became the centre of a superspreading event after around two thirds of the passengers on board tested positive for Covid-19. The mostly Swiss holidaymakers were on a folk music-themed cruise from Passau to Frankfurt between 10 and 17 October, aboard the Scylla AG operated MS Swiss Crystal. (independent.co.uk)
Tags: River - Inland Navigation / Barges, Scylla AG
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The first post Covid-19 cruise of leading river cruise operator, Scylla, has successfully come to an end after 13 days of sailing along the Danube, Main and Rhine rivers. The cruise aboard nickoVISION, run by river cruise line, Nicko cruises, took a reduced number of passengers from Passau to Dusseldorf, in Germany. (more…)
Tags: Nicko Tours GmbH, River - Inland Navigation / Barges, Scylla AG
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Leading river cruise operator, Scylla, has announced the sailing of 34 ships on Europe’s waterways with immediate effect – becoming one of the first companies to resume operations after Covid-19. (more…)
Tags: River - Inland Navigation / Barges, Scylla AG
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“More than 2 months after COVID-19 has put our fleet on pause, we can finally wake up in a world where cruising activities are within reach again. As we have passed the peak of COVID-19 and we have got to know our `virucidal enemy`, a positive outlook enabled us to start preparing the restart of our cruising activities.” (more…)
Tags: River - Inland Navigation / Barges, Scylla AG
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Scylla will launch a new expedition cruise brand, VIVA Cruises Expeditions, in summer 2021 with the SeaVenture sailing to Northern Europe and the Arctic. The Switzerland-based vessel management company owns and operates more than 30 riverboats for various brands, and has its own river brand in VIVA Cruises. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Tags: Scylla AG, Viva Cruises
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MS Anna Katharina
Phoenix Reisen has christened it latest river vessel, the Anna Katharina, in a family ceremony with Anna Katharina Zurnieden, niece of the company’s founder, as the godmother. Owned by Scylla AG, the Anna Katharina is chartered to Phoenix Reisen. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Tags: Phoenix Reisen, River - Inland Navigation / Barges, Scylla AG
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Polar Latitudes will charter the Bremen for the 2021-2022 Antarctica season, Scylla announced. The ship will be renamed the SeaScape in May 2021 as Scylla takes over the vessel from Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. The Swiss company has over 30 riverboats in its portfolio and has now moved into the expedition market. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Robbert Verbeek and Andreas Wandinger have been named managing directors at Syclla AG, which owns and charters a fleet of riverboats, and will take delivery of the Bremen in 2021. Verbeek is currently Group CFO and Wandinger, CCO. They are taking the place of Manuela van Zelst, who is stepping aside after a 17-year run with the Swiss company. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Tags: River - Inland Navigation / Barges, Scylla AG
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Tauck has announced that it will offer its first-ever cruises on the Douro River in Portugal next year, and that its three new itineraries will sail aboard a riverboat that’s being designed and built specifically for the Douro. (more…)
Tags: River - Inland Navigation / Barges, Scylla AG, Tauck
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Add another operator to the booming expedition cruise market as Scylla today announced it had acquired the Bremen from Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. The Swiss company will take delivery of the expedition vessel in May of 2021. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Tags: Hapag Lloyd Cruises, Scylla AG
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On Friday 24 February celebrations took place at the Ruyterkade Oost in Amsterdam. Not one but two river cruise vessels of the Swiss shipping company Scylla were christened. (more…)
Tags: Amsterdam, River - Inland Navigation / Barges, Scylla AG
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Since the 2007 launch of its Street View project to catalog 360-degree panoramic images from locations around the world, the team at Google has driven more than seven million miles, visited 66 countries and traveled to both Antarctica and the Arctic. (more…)
Tags: River - Inland Navigation / Barges, Scylla AG, Tauck
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