Captain \ Tarik Shaheen, Chairman of Alexandria Port Authority, accompanied by the Major General \ Izzat Abdel Qadir, Director of the General Administration of Port Police and specialists, received the Maltese cruise ship Celestyel Crystal coming from Greece with 629 tourists of different nationalities in addition to the crew of 400 individuals, Before arrival of ship, Captain / Shaheen stressed that the maximum level of preparations and emergency should be raised to receive the ship and take a series of preventive measures to prevent the entry of the Corona virus into the country, Where a team from the Quarantine Department that examined the tourists and the crew on board, at the external anchor area before its arrived at the tourist passenger terminal, where all the tourists were examined with a thermometer remotely, and there were no suspected cases, while the grouping started after the Health Quarantine. Captain / Shaheen said that the ship will carry out 5 regular visits from 2 to 30 March, and procedures taken will be done every time accurately and quickly so that it does not affect the speed of grouping the tourists’ voyage smoothly and safely. The ship has a length of 134.5 meters, and its draft is 6.10 meters. Mr. / Reda El-Ghandour, the spokesman of the port, said that during the past period, Captain / Tarek Shaheen instructed all the port workers to be aware of the seriousness of the disease and the methods of transmission, how to follow preventive measures, and deal with any suspected disease and treatment methods.
