Another cruise ship impounded in the Caribbean

Friday, January 23, 2004

LONDON, England: Hundreds of cruise passengers were being flown home Thursday after their ship was impounded in Barbados. The 1,385 passengers were on an eight-night Caribbean cruise on the 58,000-tonne Festival Cruise company vessel European Vision.

According to Britain's Press Association, the ship has been impounded because of a financial row between Italian-owned Festival and French company Alstom, which built the vessel.

The European Vision sailed from the Dominican Republic and had stopped at St Lucia before reaching Barbados.

Two other Alstom-built Festival ships were impounded in European ports earlier this week.

A Festival spokeswoman in London said that all passengers will be compensated by Festival.

Last month, in an unrelated incident, the Olympia Voyager, owned by Royal Olympia Cruise Lines Inc., which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, was impounded in the US Virgin Islands following legal action by German creditor banks.

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