After long tremors and fears about the cruise industry, we can finally start again from Germany.
The first trips from Kiel start at Pentecost.
Although some Canary Islands routes were offered by the cruise lines in March after a long compulsory break *, trips from German ports have so far been impossible.
But that will change from next weekend.
It will be the second attempt to make a fresh start and overcome the corona shock for the cruise industry.
On this Whitsun weekend *, TUI and AIDA start their routes from Kiel.
And the offer of the shipping companies seems to be well received.
Cruises from Kiel - among others with TUI and AIDA
AIDAsol
will start
its first voyage
from Kiel
on May 22, 2021
. One day later, the TUI ship “
Mein Schiff 1
”
follows
, also from Kiel. The so-called “Blue Voyages” do not allow shore leave, but allow plenty of time to explore the ship on the Baltic Sea. In addition to TUI Cruises and AIDA,
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises
also starts
cruises from Kiel. The capital of Schleswig-Holstein has established itself as the first German port that allows cruises and wants to start handling passengers again. And apparently with success. AIDA reports that there has been such a rush to travel that AIDAsol will be replaced by its bigger sister AIDAprima at the end of June.
The fact that the shipping companies can start from Kiel is also due, among other things, to the
falling corona infections
.
After all, tourism in Schleswig-Holstein was largely reopened under strict guidelines.
Also read:
Cruise: These routes will be offered again in 2021
.
Cruises in other ports are not yet allowed
It looks different in the ports of Hamburg, Rostock or Bremerhaven.
“We assume that cruises will be made possible again at the latest when the ban on accommodation is lifted,” says the German managing director of the international industry association Clia, Helge Grammerstorf.
“
We know the rules, but we don't yet know when the game will kick off
. ”At the moment there doesn't seem to be any clear signs of this.
However, as soon as it can start from other German ports, the shipping companies are quickly ready to go.
After all, the ships and their crew are always ready for action.
"We are determined to get the ships back to the start quickly," said AIDA spokesman Hansjörg Kunze.
And TUI Cruises spokeswoman Godja Sönnichsen said: “We are assuming that we will be back at the start with the ships of the Mein Schiff fleet in the course of the summer.”
(Swa) * Merkur.de is an offer by IPPEN.MEDIA.
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.