Viking River Cruises order six ships at Neptun
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- Published: 18 October 2014 18 October 2014
Viking River Cruises, the Basel based river cruise line, has placed an order for six Longship class river cruise vessels with Neptun Werft in Rostock, the shipyard said in a statement.
The now ordered ships will be delivered in the Spring of 2016 and they will carry 190 passengers in 95 outside cabins. The will be 135 m in length, 11.45 m in beam and have a draft of 1.60 m.
Viking River cruises has a fleet of 53 ships. Neptun Werft is part of the Meyer Werft group that has a major cruise ship building facility in Papenburg. It recently acquired controlling interest in the shipyard in Turku, Finland.
Carnival plc shares in sharp fall on Ebola news
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- Published: 17 October 2014 17 October 2014
Shares in Carnival plc, the British holding company in Carnival Corp & plc group, traded sharply lower in the afternoon on media reports saying that a passenger that may have handled Ebola samples is in quarantine on board Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Magic.
At just after 2pm, the shares in Carnival plc traded 3.4% down at £21.19, close to the session's low of £20.93 but quite a way above a 52-week low of £20.48.
The wider stock market firmed in London, like in most other European countries, after several days of losses. The FTSE100 share index of leading shares was 0.99% higher at the same time.
Carnival Magic passenger who may have handled Ebola lab specimen quarantined on board -- reports
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A Texas health-care worker who “may have” handled lab specimens from Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan has been isolated on board a Carnival cruise ship in the Caribbean, the Washington Post reports on its website.
The ship in question was named as Carnival Magic of Carnival Cruise Lines in a report of Daily Mail in the UK. Carnival Cruise Lines is part of carnival Corp & plc, the Anglo American group that is the world's largest cruise shipping company.
"The worker has shown no symptoms of the disease, according to Carnival, which said it is in close contact with the Centers for Disease Control. A Carnival spokeswoman said the guest, who was not named, will remain on board in voluntary isolation until the ship returns to its home port of Galveston on Sunday," the WashingtonPost report said.
"The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital employee and a partner boarded the ship Oct. 12 in Galveston, Tex., before the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the requirement for active monitoring, the State Department said in a statement. Although the worker is healthy, the U.S. government is working with the cruise line to get the ship back to America “out of an abundance of caution,” the Washington Post continued.
The employee, who has not been named, did not come into direct contact with Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. However, he or she may have been exposed to his clinical specimens, the State Department said.
“It has been 19 days since the passenger may have processed” Duncan’s fluid samples, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement early Friday morning. “The cruise line has actively supported CDC’s efforts to speak with the individual, whom the cruise ship’s medical doctor has monitored and confirmed was in good health. Following this examination, the hospital employee and traveling partner have voluntarily remained isolated in a cabin.”
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