Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. announced it will move two of its cruise ships to support humanitarian efforts in Australia and California.

MSC Cruises USA has named Rubén Rodríguez as President and he will join the organization on March 18.

Mr. Rodríguez will work to grow the company's strategy in the United States region, both in terms of its commercial presence and brand awareness, and leverage long-term investments made in recent years. 

The first cruise ship for Virgin Voyages, Scarlet Lady, was delivered by shipbuilder Fincantieri today at the shipyard in Genoa Sestri Ponente.

The ship recently completed its sea trials, and was delivered to the cruise line.

Scarlet Lady is the first of four ships ordered by Virgin Voyages.

Scarlet Lady is scheduled to set sail on her inaugural maiden voyage on April 1.

Royal Caribbean announced it has signed an agreement to build the first Royal Beach Club resort in Antigua.

The cruise line and the the government of Antigua and Barbuda, along with the assistance of the Consulate General of Antigua and Barbuda, signed an agreement that marks the start of the planning and development for the Royal Beach Club scheduled to break ground later this year.

The Royal Beach Club will be available exclusively to cruise like guests and occupy more than a half-mile of pristine beachfront.

The crew on the Diamond Princess that is taking care of a quarantined ship dealing with a coronavirus outbreak will receive two months paid vacation for their troubles.

Princess Cruises confirmed the paid two months of vacation for the crew.

Cruise line spokesman Roger Frizzell commented on the decision:

Days after banning any Chinese passport holders out of concern for the spread of Coronavirus, Royal Caribbean decided to reverse the policy.

On Monday, Royal Caribbean announced it has decided to undo the ban, which was originally put into place to prevent passengers infected with the coronavirus from boarding their ships.

Norwegian Cruise Line announced it has cancelled all of its Norwegian Spirit sailings in Asia through December 7, 2020 due to coronavirus concerns.

The Norwegian Spirit was scheduled to offering cruises from Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo in 2020, as part of her Asian cruise season.

In addition to airfare change fees, the cruise line is offering a full refund of cruise fares paid, along with a future cruise credit worth 10 percent as compensation for new cruises booked in the next 45 days.

NCL has not announced where the ship will sail from instead.

Princess Cruises announced a new partnership with SES to provide the cruise line early access to O3b mPOWER network augmenting the Princess MedallionClass experience as it scales across the fleet. 

The new satellite network promises to deliver "unmatched and ubiquitous global Wi-Fi service levels", as well as "seamless land/sea digital experience enablement".

Royal Caribbean opened its additional cost exclusive area of Perfect Day at CocoCay, known as the Coco Beach Club.

The exclusive beach club touts the first floating cabanas in The Bahamas, an oceanfront infinity pool, beach cabanas, a dedicated restaurant with upscale dining and an exclusive bar.