MSC Grandiosa on August 16 became the first ship from the MSC Cruises fleet to welcome back guests onboard and the first ship to implement the company?s health and safety protocol.
The first guests began embarking MSC Cruises? flagship in the port of Genoa, Italy, arriving at the cruise terminal and followed the new universal screening procedures. The guests, fit to travel then embarked the ship according to the new health and safety procedures.
All guests received a complimentary MSC for Me wristband, which provides them with contactless options while on board. Additionally, over the past several weeks, all crew members have gone through health screening measures.
Gianni Onorato, MSC Cruises? CEO, commented: ?Our main goal during these last months has been to put in place the right measures that will protect the health and safety of our guests, crew and the communities we visit. But at the same time, we have worked to ensure that we are able to provide our guests with a cruise holiday that they can enjoy and still experience all of the elements that they know.?
Following the embarkation of the new guests today in Civitavecchia, more guests will also embark in the ports of Naples and Palermo and then the ship will call at Valetta in Malta, before returning to Genoa on Sunday. Along the ship?s itinerary, guests will be able to go ashore to enjoy the different ports of call but only as part of an MSC Cruises shore excursion to enjoy the different ports of call as an added level of protection so that their experience ashore follows the same high standards of health and safety as on board.
For this initial phase of the restart of operations, the two MSC Cruises ships operating in the Mediterranean ? the second being MSC Magnifica in the East Mediterranean - for the current summer season will initially only welcome guests who are residents in Schengen countries.
