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Whatever floats your boat: The Splendida has everything from restaurants and bars to theatres and libraries.
MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING COMPANY

No lose on this splendid cruise

South Africans no longer have to fly to Europe to enjoy MSC’s Splendida, which will be sailing out of the new terminal in Durban This content is restricted to registered users…

  • Paddy Harper
1 min read
In a jam: The Zack’s restaurant on Wilson’s Wharf, a co-host of the Durban Blues Festival for many years, has become a Covid casualty – along with many other businesses on the marina. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BOAT

Human contact floats the boats

Discovering the life-sustaining importance of contact with actual people: colleagues, customers, and deputy presidents

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Cruise control: Boat owner Bennie Janse van Rensburg says unless he obtains rent relief he may have to close his whale-watching and party-boat business.
BOATS

Durban’s cruisers may just survive the Covid crisis

Five months of no income means things are touch and go for Durban’s harbour charter industry, but with help they hope to weather the storm

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Passengers are seen on the balconies of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, with around 3 600 people quarantined onboard due to fears of the new coronavirus, at the Daikaku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port on February 12, 2020. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP)
AIRLINES

The great untethering and the airlines’ flat spin

If record vinyls and iTunes can co-exist in the Technological Age, Wi-Fi will allow ocean liners a slice of the airlines’ global travel monopoly

  • Guy Oliver
6 min read