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Coral Princess Cruises has announced that fuel surcharges for all its voyages will be abolished for departures on or after February 1st 2009.

Coral Princess was one of the last cruise operators, world-wide, to impose a surcharge in August, 2008 and has moved quickly – in light of reductions in marine fuel costs - to eliminate the supplement following the decision by other cruise operators to suspend their fuel surcharge this month.

“We’d like to thank our industry partners for their understanding with regard to the necessity of implementing the surcharge back in August. We’re of course extremely pleased that fuel prices have returned to some sort of normality and, in appreciation of our partners’ loyalty, we have removed the surcharge at the first opportunity,” said Tony Briggs, Founder and Managing Director of Coral Princess Cruises.

The removal of the surcharge is effective for all existing and new bookings for cruises departing on or after February 1, 2009. The surcharge will remain in place for departures up to and including January 31st 2009.

With regard to all existing bookings due to depart on or after February 1st 2009, in coming days the company said it will issue revised invoices reflecting the abolition of the surcharge.