Cruise Line Marks One Year Of Cruise Service After Pause

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Button textPlease Support this site and Buy Me a Coffee 6.5 million meals were provided and 500,000 nautical miles were traveled in the first year back. This past weekend, Holland America Line’s clients and staff members commemorated a significant achievement: one full year since the cruise line resumed sailing following the COVID-19 pandemic’s suspension of operations. The line’s first ship to return was Nieuw Amsterdam, which started sailing again in Seattle, Washington, on July 24, 2021. While the ship was docked in Whitter, Alaska, it had been a year.
As ports opened to tourists over the past year, Holland America Line’s 10 surviving ships restarted at a number of locations. The company has started traveling again, in addition to Alaska, to Canada/New England, the Caribbean, Hawaii, the Mediterranean, Mexico, Northern Europe, the Pacific Coast, Panama Canal, and the South Pacific. The ships will make their way back to Australia/New Zealand and South America/Antarctica before the year is up.
The eagerly awaited 128-day Grand World and 74-day Grand South America and Antarctica journeys depart in January 2023, while Asia itineraries resume in February 2023. The eagerly awaited 71-day Grand Africa Voyage departs in October 2022.

Dates for each ship’s return to service. In June 2022, Holland America Line will have reopened all of its ships throughout the course of the year: The dates for Eurodam, Koningsdam, Rotterdam, Nieuw Statendam, Zuiderdam, Noordam, Oosterdam, Zaandam, and Westerdam are as follows: August 15, 2021; Koningsdam, October 10, 2021; Rotterdam, October 20, 2021; Nieuw Statendam, November 21, 2021; Zuiderdam, December 23, 2021.
In accordance with a previously announced arrangement with the Netherlands and the City of Rotterdam, Volendam began sheltering Ukrainian refugees in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on April 5, 2022. For a voyage departing from Italy on September 24, the ship will reposition.

Since 1873, Holland America Company has been traveling the globe. In fact, 75 years ago, it was the first cruise line to offer excursions to Alaska and the Yukon. Its fleet of luxury ships travels to approximately 400 ports in 114 different nations, providing the best mid-sized ship experience. Rotterdam, a third ship of the Pinnacle-class, joined the fleet in July 2021.