Marco Polo Cruise Ship News

CMVs 556-passenger ships Astoria is not currently for sale as the ship was always due to leave CMVs fleet in October 2020.

Marco polo cruise ship news. The company went into administration on July 20 2020 and cruise ships went up for auction. Built in 1987 was sold for a mere 17 million 13 million while CMVs venerable Marco Polo. She last sailed for UK-based Cruise Maritime Voyages and its German subsidiary Transocean Tours.

Marco Polo will already be the tenth ship to be beached for dismantling since June. In 1991 it was sold to Orient Lines and renamed Marco Polo. The Marco Polo was built in the 1960s and was one of the worlds last surviving ocean cruise liners.

Former part of Cruise Maritime Voyages. The Marco Polo cruise ship in 20 pictures. This is a page dedicated to ms Marco Polo cruise ship accidents and incidents reports and news updates.

Marco Polo - Cocaine Drug Bust. A storied history of more than 55 years sailing the worlds oceans comes to a sad end as the former Cruise and Maritime Voyages liner MS Marco Polo sets a course to the shipbreaking yard in Alang India. The iconic MS Marco Polo cruise ship has been beached at the ship-breaking facility in Alang India.

A former ocean liner the Marco Polo was built in 1965 as the Aleksandr Pushkin for the LeningradMontreal route. Marco Polo one of oldest cruise ships of the world that failed to remain afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic arrived at the Alang ship-breaking yard in Gujarat on Saturday to be scrapped. Water crashed through a window injuring several passengers.

MS Marco Polo was a cruise ship originally built as ocean liner Aleksandr Pushkin in 1965 by Mathias-Thesen-Werft East Germany for the Soviet Unions Baltic Shipping CompanyAfter major alterations and additions the ship sailed as Marco Polo for Orient Lines from 1993 to 2008. As is customary when a cruise ship docks for the first time in a port a plaque exchange takes place between local and ship officials. Look No Further Book Now.