{"id":137826,"date":"2020-12-03T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=137826&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-12-03T19:01:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:01:19","slug":"jr-kyushu-considers-selling-off-beetles","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/jr-kyushu-considers-selling-off-beetles\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Kyushu Considers Selling Off Beetles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JR Kyushu is considering selling three of their Beetle cruise ships, as the prolonged impact of the new coronavirus spread forces the company to downsize its marine-tourism business. These vessels served the international route between Hakata and Busan until March this year. However, costs for keeping those three ships and the newly introduced Queen Beetle continue to rise without a firm prospect of reopening the route. The company also plans to reduce the number of employees in its marine division. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASND156BNND1TIPE005.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asahi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20201201\/k00\/00m\/020\/379000c\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mainichi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Beetle3.JPG\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-137827\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jr-beetle.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jr-beetle.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jr-beetle.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jr-beetle.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jr-beetle.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Beetle3.JPG\">hyolee2<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JR Kyushu is considering selling three of their Beetle cruise ships, as the prolonged impact of the new coronavirus spread forces the company to downsize its marine-tourism business. These vessels served the international route between Hakata and Busan until&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":137827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-137826","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/137826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}