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Cruise ship blocked again

The 'Ambience' has once again been blocked from sailing into Amsterdam by climate change protestors, this time with 170 delegates attending the Advantage Latitude cruise conference amongst the 1,400 passengers onboard. 120 Advantage members and 50 of its suppliers, including UK cruise line representatives,were aboard the ship for the consortium’s annual three-day Latitude cruise conference. The captain made the announcement that the ship would be diverted as it set sail from London Tilbury for a three-night round-trip cruise. Instead of docking in the city centre, the ship docked at IJmuiden on Oct 25, 2024, which was a 45-minute drive away, and passengers could travel by shuttle bus to the city centre. The ship had received advanced information that Extinction Rebellion protestors planned to chain themselves to the locks on the approach to Amsterdam on Oct 25 and 26 , preventing ships from going in and out.

Crew member missing on Atlantiic

On May 3, 2024, the 'Ambience' reported a missing crew member during the final stage of its world cruise en route from Lisbon to Tilbury. Shortly after breakfast he failed to report for duty. Eventually, an extensive search was initiated by the cruise line to locate the missing crew member along with the Spanish Coast Guard. The cruise ship started retracing its previous route in the Atlantic Ocean west and South of A Coruna and West and North of Vigo, to locate the missing crew member. On May 5, the ship arrived in Tilbury.

16 migrants rescued off Punta Polacra

The 'Ambience', en route from Leixoes, rescued 14 men and two women, one of them pregnant, from a skiff which located about 20 miles southeast of Punta Polacra, off the coast of Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park (Almería), on Aug 17, 2023, at around 10.50 a.m. They were disembarked at the port of Palma de Mallorca, where the cruise ship berthed at the Dique del Oeste Multipurpose Terminal on Aug 18 at 8.20 a.m. UTC. All castaways were of Maghreb origin and have Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian nationalities.