World Dream quarantined in Hong Kong

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Written by Teijo Niemelä Teijo Niemelä

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Published: 05 February 2020 05 February 2020

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) today (February 5) said that subsequent to the notification of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection involving eight travellers from the Mainland who took the World Dream cruise from January 19 to 24, the CHP's Port Health Division is sparing no effort in carrying out the port health inspection work on the cruise.

Personnel of the Port Health Division have been assessing the health condition of over 1 800 passengers and over 1 800 crew members on board through health declaration and temperature checking. As of 9pm, 33 crew members of the cruise claimed to have developed upper respiratory tract infection symptoms. Among them, three crew members reported to have developed fever were sent to hospital for isolation and management.

Samples were collected from all crew members reported to have symptoms for testing on novel coronavirus. Currently, relevant test results showed that the respiratory samples of 32 crew members concerned were tested negative for novel coronavirus while that of the remaining one is pending.

The CHP said that relevant health inspection work is ongoing due to the large number of people on board. All passengers and crew members are required to stay on board prior to completion of the health inspection and permission by the DH.

RCCL launches five year programme to boost earnings and cut emissions

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Written by Kari Reinikainen Kari Reinikainen

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Published: 04 February 2020 04 February 2020

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd (RCCL), the world’s second largest cruise shipping group, has introduced its 20>25 by 2025 program which is designed to give people throughout the company specific goals to work towards. 

“The program includes several goals by 2025: delivering $20.00 adjusted earnings per share (EPS); further reducing the company's carbon footprint by 25%; delivering strong returns on invested capital; and continuing to improve on record guest satisfaction and employee engagement metrics,” the company said in a statement.

For 2019, the adjusted EPS amounted to $9.56.

“These goals have been put in place to focus our leadership on achieving outsized improvements in our performance going forward.  We believe that what gets measured gets better and - just like the Double-Double program - we believe that this 20>25 by 2025 program will help focus our people on the key success factors for our future.  This program not only focuses on earnings and carbon footprint, it will also focus on further improving our guest satisfaction and employee engagement while continuing to deliver strong returns on invested capital,” RCCL said.

"We are pairing ambitious business and environmental goals because we all understand that businesses must do our part to meet the needs of all our stakeholders," said Richard D. Fain, chairman and CEO.  "Over the last years, our people have worked hard to deliver strong performance on both profitability metrics and important societal goals.  This 20>25 by 2025 program should help take those efforts to the next level."