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  • AIDA Offers New Routes Around Africa in Winter 2025/26

    • January 15, 2025
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    AIDA has announced that new cruises around Africa with the AIDAstella and AIDAprima can now be booked for the 2025/26 winter season. Cruises include a two-week sailing from Cape Town to Tenerife, and the 57-day globetrotter trip from Hamburg via South Africa and Mauritius to the Orient. The company said in a press release that

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  • Costa Smeralda: First LNG Cruise Ship Refueled in Dubai

    • January 14, 2025
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    • Category: LNG, Ports, Ships, Technology
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    Costa Smeralda: First LNG Cruise Ship Refueled in Dubai Costa Cruises has announced that while on her winter season of cruises in the United Arab Emirates, the Costa Smeralda became the first cruise ship to bunker LNG in Dubai.Costa said in a press release that the refueling was made possible by Monjasa, the logistics provider

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  • AIDA’s ships to visit 250+ call ports in winter 2023-2024

    • January 31, 2023
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    • Category: Ports, Ships
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    AIDA Cruises offers tourists a variety of routes in winter 2023-2024 with 250+ ports of call in 80+ countries. The 2023-2024 cruise program includes voyages to the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and Seychelles, getaways in the Orient, around the Canaries, and cruises in the north. The AIDAsol ship is scheduled to set off on her 117-day world cruise

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  • Cruise Ships: What Has Changed Post-Pandemic?

    • January 20, 2023
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    • Category: General, GOOD WINDS, Ships
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    The Covid-19 pandemic hit us suddenly and caught us unaware. It crippled life in an unprecedented way and, in many ways, has changed our way of living forever. On land, the covid-induced lockdowns and social distancing- terms barely heard of before, became common terminology. Physical interaction and socialising, one of the basic human needs, became

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  • AIDA Cruises Raises Pay, Benefits for Crew Members

    • January 18, 2023
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    • Category: General, GOOD WINDS, Ships, Uncategorized
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    Carnival Corporation’s brand AIDA Cruises announced that the company is raising pay for all crew by 5 percent. According to a report from Crew Center, the pay rise will be carried out in two steps, with the first increase of 2.5 percent in February 2023, and 2.5 percent in July 2023. “Since we returned to service over

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  • Best partners recognize each other!

    • September 10, 2020
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    Carnival Maritime started a section in their internal Marine HR Bulletin where they would introduce all their partners. They have selected GOOD WINDS Marine Services team to be the first partner presented. Please enjoy the article introducing our Agency with pictures and information about our team.   Thank you!

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  • 12 Countries Sign Joint Statement To Aid Seafarers In Crew Change Crisis

    • July 15, 2020
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    12 countries came together on the 9th of July to work effectively towards the crew change crisis by signing a joint statement to fast track crew changes around the world and aim to designate the status of ‘key-workers’ for seafarers. This took place at The virtual International Maritime Summit on Crew Changes hosted by the

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  • Loneliness and isolation taste … maritime!

    • April 13, 2020
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    We all go through this strange and especially unexpected period, generated by an imported Chinese virus… Well, COVID-19 it is not a “scary movie” only, it is a pandemic that will change everything we have known so far and in one way or another will affect us all. We have been isolated for some time

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  • Fighting Coronavirus On Ships – Steps Seafarers Should Take

    • March 20, 2020
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    The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has put the shipping industry into the grip of fear and stagnation. Most of the stakeholders in the maritime industry are feeling the heat in terms of business cutdowns and loss. China, the major player in the global container shipping market, has been hit the hardest and which has impacted the

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  • FAQs On Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Nautilus

    • March 18, 2020
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    This Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) article sets out some general guidance for members, mostly relying on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC) and Seafarers’ Employment Agreement (SEA). However, note that there will be differences between flag states’ laws. For specific advice based on your own individual circumstances and SEA please contact your union official. I

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