Port Kembla to host cruise ships stranded during 30-day COVID-19 ban

Kate McIlwain
Updated March 17 2020 - 12:15pm, first published March 16 2020 - 2:49pm
Safe harbour: Royal Caribbean ship Radiance of the Seas has taken up a berth at Port Kembla while it waits out the government's restrictions. Picture: Adam McLean.
Safe harbour: Royal Caribbean ship Radiance of the Seas has taken up a berth at Port Kembla while it waits out the government's restrictions. Picture: Adam McLean.

Some of the international cruise ships caught up the Australian government's new ban - which prevents them from docking in Australia for the next 30 days - will take refuge at Port Kembla.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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