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Fred Olsen calls at Liverpool for first time for world cruise


Fred Olsen Cruise Lines’ 108-night Around the World voyage on Black Watch features an option to board in Liverpool for the first time. It sets sail from Liverpool on January 6, 2021, and from Southampton on January 8 and is priced from £10,799 per person, with an additional £200 for the Liverpool departure. fredolsencruises.com


Susy Atkins to sail Director’s Cruise on Emerald Radiance


Wine expert and broadcaster Susy Atkins will join Emerald Waterways managing director Colin Downing on a one-off eight-day Douro Valley sailing on Emerald Radiance. The Director’s Cruise costs from £2,485 including flights. It departs Porto on August 17 and includes an excursion to Salamanca and a gala dinner. emeraldwaterways.co.uk


Quark to operate two trips to the North Pole in 2020


Quark Expeditions will operate two 14-day Arctic Ocean trips in 2020, offering guests the chance to join a hot-air balloon ride to the North Pole. Passengers will spend a night in Helsinki, Finland, before flying to Murmansk, Russia, to board nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Years of Victory. Fares start at $30,995. quarkexpeditions.com


Lucy Hone joins Fred River Cruises to promote brands


Fred River Cruises has appointed Lucy Hone as business development manager. Hone, previously a sales manager for Uniworld, will promote the operator’s partner river cruise brands, including Amadeus River Cruises, American Cruise Lines, Pandaw, Volga Dream and Far Horizon. fredrivercruises.co.uk


Princess new ports include Skye, St Helena and Maine


Samantha Mayling


samantha.mayling@ travelweekly.co.uk


Princess Cruises will make 12 maiden ports of call this year, including two in the UK. Crown Princess will visit


Portland in Dorset in April as part of a Western Europe Passage from Fort Lauderdale to Southampton. And Pacific Princess will visit Scotland in September and drop anchor at Portree, Isle of Skye. Other maiden calls for Pacific


Princess this year include Pointe- a-Pitre, Guadeloupe; Mayreau, the smallest inhabited island of the Grenadines; and Jamestown,


St Helena, in the south Atlantic. Sapphire Princess will make an inaugural visit to Rockland, Maine, on a 24-night round-trip sailing from Southampton to Canada and New England. The cruise departs September 14, and costs from £2,249, with $100 onboard spending money. Finally, Japan features six new ports, all on Diamond Princess: Gamagori, Himeji, Miyako, Niigata, Wakayama and Takamatsu.


Hapag-Lloyd gears up for launch of trio of expedition ships


Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ planned expansion in the expedition sector is gathering pace. The Tui Group-owned line is building three new-generation ships for the sector, the second of which will cater for English-speaking passengers as well as the German market.


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SKY PRINCESS: Madrina Kerry Ann Wright, with captain Michele Tuvo and Princess Cruises’ Tony Roberts at the ship’s float-out ceremony


Meanwhile, Princess Cruises has


marked construction milestones for three ships being built in Italy. It held a steel-cutting ceremony


or its sit n fin ocss ship, due to be completed by 2022 and yet to be named. The cruise line has also


celebrated the keel-laying of Enchanted Princess, due for delivery in  n te fotout o Sky


he fiishi toches to Hanseatic Inspiration will be carried out at a Norwegian shipyard this summer, ahead of the 230-berth ship’s launch in Antwerp in October. The hull of the vessel was


built in Romania and is being towed 4,000 miles to Norway. Hapag-Lloyd’s other two


new-build expedition vessels – Hanseatic Nature, launching in April, and Hanseatic Spirit, from 2021 – are earmarked to cater solely for the German market.


Princess, due in October this year. Enchanted Princess will launch in Southampton in June 2020.


In her role as Sky Princess’s madrina, Kerry Ann Wright, a secon oficer or rincess Cruises smashed a bottle of champagne against the hull of the ship. A madrina is a godmother at a


fotout cereon. princess.com


The expedition ships will


sail in the Arctic, Antarctic and South America, and are designed to get passengers close to nature while minimising environmental impact. They will feature an interative


‘Study Wall’ , measuring six by 1.8 metres, allowing guests to search for information about ports of call, marine life, destinations and cultures. The line’s existing expedition


ship, Bremen, was built in 1990. hl-cruises.com


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