A number of cruise lines unveil further cancellations of sailings due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Royal Caribbean International has announced it will cancel all of its cruises scheduled in March and April 2021, except for Quantum of the Seas’ sailings from Singapore, which resumed in December 2020. In China sailings on Spectrum of the Seas 16 to 28 February are  cancelled.

Celebrity Cruises suspension includes the May 1 Celebrity Apex transatlantic sailing and Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Constellation’s Europe sailings departing May through October 2021. May through Oct. 2021 Europe and transatlantic cruises on Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Constellation will also be cancelled.

Silversea Cruises will suspend sailings through 1 April, while Azamara Cruises will suspend sailings through 30 April. All four are parts of the Royal Caribbean Group.

In the UK, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines said the first sailing of Borealis thati s one of the two ships acquired from Holland America Line in the autumn,  will now sail on the seven-night ‘Sailing Around Iconic Ireland’ cruise from Liverpool on 22 May. Borealis was initially due to set sail on 23 April. It remains the first ship of the line to resume sailing, even after the delayed first cruise.