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‘UK sailings send positive signal for industry's safe restart’

Destinations
Antonio Paradiso
30 March 2021

MSC Cruises UK and Ireland boss outlines the company’s journey to restarting operations in the UK and what experience awaits guests this summer onboard flagship, MSC Virtuosa.

Virtuosa will stay in Southampton throughout October and offer four additional voyages

Virtuosa will start its fourth ex-UK season in April

Very early on, at the start of the pandemic when we halted the fleet, our senior management team in Geneva started focusing on how we would be able to restart cruises in a safe and responsible way. 

We established a taskforce and formed a blue ribbon panel of experts that devised a health and safety protocol which helped to set the standard for the industry, and in many cases our measures went above and beyond the guidelines set out by the experts and authorities.