Tradewinds posted: Passengers on the seven-day Mexico cruise had been posting inquiries about the incident for days but the Carnival subsidiary did not break its silence until today. The ship in question was the 57,092gt Veendam belonging to Holland America. Anti-cruise blog Cruise Law…
In what can only be attributed to bad timing and bad luck, these two stories popped up right next to each other on CruiseCritic’s RSS feeds: As background, Jeff Bezos Amazon’s CEO and drone enthusiast, was recently evacuated from a cruise…
Port Canaveral has just broken ground on a 50 million dollar new cruise terminal. It will be located in a vacant area on the ports south side. The 187,500 square foot facility is scheduled to open in November 2014.…
In an interesting twist to the “will she/won’t she” be sold, Celebrity has now come out and denied claims that they will be selling their oldest ship, the 1995-built Celebrity Century. It was report earlier last month that the deal…
The U.S. state department has just issued a travel warning for its citizens travelling to Honduras. They rank the crime and violence in the central american country as Critically High. Travelers can take solace in knowing that the crime rates at…
UPDATE January 2: All 52 pax have been finally rescued. They are currently onboard the Australian ice breaker Aurora Australis, and are finally on their way home. BBC has this photo showing the loading of pax onto the helicopter. The helicopter landed…
Viking Cruises announced the keel was laid for its first ocean cruise vessel, Viking Star, marking the next construction phase of the company’s first-ever ocean product. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, December 18, at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard outside Venice, Italy. Viking Star is scheduled to…
Carnival has announced that the Carnival Splendor will reposition to Miami in November 2014 for the winter 2014-2015 season. This removes their only ship from yearound service out of New York City. She’ll be back in the summer 2015 for…
UPDATE December 26: MSC and Fincantieri have announced that they came to an agreement on a €200m program to refit and stretch the 4 Liricia class ships. They will add the rumored 200 cabins to each ship via a stretching. The…
Seatrade is reporting that Fincanteri is currently working on a prototype for a new MSC Cruises vessel. The details are unknown at this time, however the size is estimated in the 150,000gt and over 308m loa.The ship with have the…