The MSC Opera smashed into a dock located on the Giudecca canal in Venice this morning. Tugs could not maintain control of the MSC cruise ship as it violently struck the dock and then struck the stern of the River Countess (a river cruise ship) which was docked and disembarking passengers, as shown in a
The local police in Madeira arrested a dozen people after the police boarded a cruise ship at port in Funchal for involvement in smuggling cocaine weighing around 18 kilograms and worth two million pounds (£) aboard a cruise ship operated by MSC. The police were assisted by Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA).
The police detained
A MSC crew member who stayed in Grand Cayman last month, when her cruise ship left port, was sentenced to three months in prison for illegally remaining on the island.
As we previously reported, 34 year old Yusmaidys Ortiz Perez, employed as a bartender on the MSC Opera, was reported by MSC to the
On March 27, 2018, MSC Cruises reported to the police in the Cayman Islands that a crew member was missing after she failed to re-board the MSC Opera cruise ship before its departure from George Town. We mentioned the incident on March 28th, after the popular Crew Center reported the incident.
According to the
The Port Authority of Genoa is engaged in the research of a 75 year old woman who disappeared last night from the MSC Opera arriving from Civitavecchia to the port of Genoa.
An Italian newspaper says that the passenger was not aboard the MSC cruise ship when it arrived in Genoa.
Searches are under
BBC News reports that a "severely ill" passenger had to be evacuated from a MSC cruise ship.
The MSC Opera was anchored off Guernsey. According to the BBC, the Guernsey Coast Guard described the patient’s illness as severe.
Guernsey is an island near Normandy in the English Channel between France and England.
Photo Credit: Guernsey Harbours via