All Leisure Holidays (ALH), the UK-based operator of Swan Hellenic and Voyages of Discovery cruises, has been put into administration.

Eddie Williams, David Dunckley and Matthew Richards of Grant Thornton have been appointed joint administrators of the companies today.

Earlier in the week the two companies cancelled January sailings of their two cruiseships, citing operational reasons for pulling the voyages of the 15,400-gt Voyager (built 1990) and 12,900-gt Minerva (built 2004).

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