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Five Carnival cruise ships leave Australia 4 April 2020
« on: April 04, 2020, 07:02:38 AM »
From ABC News 4 April 2020

More than 1,300 crew members are being moved between cruise ships in Sydney Harbour in what NSW Police have described as the largest maritime operation the city has seen outside wartime.

Key points:
Five Carnival cruise ships will have left Australian waters by tonight
NSW Police and the port authority are working to refuel and restock the ships

The Ruby Princess ship, which saw more than 600 COVID-19 cases, is not part of the operation
Five cruise ships are being restocked before leaving Australian waters in an operation dubbed 'Operation Nemesis'.

Late last month the Australian Border Force ordered all cruise ships to leave Australian waters before June 15, warning of penalties of up to five years in jail or a $63,000 fine.

The Spectrum of the Seas and Radiance of the Seas ships departed for their home ports after being refuelled and restocked with food and medical supplies just before 2:00pm.

The Celebrity Solstice, Voyager of the Seas and Ovation of the Seas will depart this evening.

"NSW Police has been instrumental in facilitating the movement of more than 750,000 tonnes of shipping through the Port of Sydney over about a 30-hour period," Superintendent Steve Hegarty said.

The operation involved NSW Police Force Marine Area Command as well as the NSW Port Authority and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, the operator of all the ships.

There are no passengers on any of the ships, only crew who have been under quarantine.

It is not known how many crew members have tested positive to coronavirus but several from the Radiance of the Seas were evacuated and taken to hospital this week.

Today's operation is taking place at Athol Bay, near Cremorne Point on Sydney's north shore.

Superintendent Hegarty said they were moving crew members between ships so people were organised according to their destinations.
"It is about getting some of these people on the cruise ships back to their home countries, back with their families," he said.



 

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