The Covid-19 coronavirus crisis has prompted Japan's NYK Line to become the latest company to cancel cruises.
The giant shipowner and operator said all voyages on its 50,000-gt Asuka II (built 1990) have been scrapped in March.
The vessel will also not set sail on a scheduled 103-day round-the-world cruise due to leave from Japan on 2 April, returning in July.
The company's NYK Cruises operation said it had collected information from organisations specialising in infectious diseases before making its decision.
"In light of the status of the spread of infection in Japan" and "as a result of considering safety and security the top priority, we have decided to cancel," the company said.
Refunds will be issued to passengers.
Cruises still in place after July
The first affected departure is on 11 March, with subsequent cruises on 19, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 29 March also biting the dust.
"For future cruises, we will inform you of the resumption as soon as it is ready to board with confidence" the company added.
But the itinerary after July is currently still in place.
It is considering moving the world cruise to 2021.
The big three global cruise operators, Carnival Corp, Royal Caribbean Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCL), have already said they expect the outbreak will hit their earnings by more than a half-billion dollars combined.
They anticipate a $555m total impact to their full-year 2020 expectations.
NCL said on a conference call that it had cancelled voyages in Asia for the first nine months of 2020.
It has been forced to cancel, modify or redeploy 40 voyages in total across all three of its brands and provide compensation to customers.
Carnival and Royal Caribbean will not allow anyone who has travelled through China in the past two weeks to board its ships, while NCL will turn away those who have been through the country in the last 30 days.
