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According to Cruise Currents, the 2013-built Royal Princess has lost power in the Mediterranean. She was enroute to Naples, Italy. Backup generators are keeping essential safety and guest services still functional. Princess has stated that the crew are currently in…
Cruiseind is taking a little vacation this week. If anything major happens ill post about it. However things may be silent for a while.
This week Princess Cruises Crown Princess rescued Earlier this week, the Crown Princess rescued 158 Syrian refuges from the Mediterranean Sea. They had left Syria and weren’t spotted until they were off the coast of Sicily, Italy. The Italian coastguard…
After 19 hours, the the Parbuckling is done. Originally planned as a 10 hour operation, the salvage team ran into some snags and it went slower than anticipated. We can now see what 20 months under water did to her…
For the first time since January 2012, the Costa Concordia is now upright. You can see in the above photo, from the live video stream, that the water line is now one deck below the bridge. That’s because she is…
STX Finland has announced that they will be closing the Rauma yard. In an effort to condense operations in an attempt to become profitable again, all shipyard work will be transferred to its Turku yard. Jari Anttila, EVP and…
This morning salvage workers began righting the partially capsized Costa Concordia. She is currently being hauled upright by hydraulic cables. Once upright, she’ll sit on a submerged structure before being properly re-floated. Reuters have the live video.
Royal Caribbean announced that they will be cutting 100 ‘low level’ positions inside the company. The goal is to streamline the company. The big news is that Lisa Bauer, the global sales and marketing chief, will also be leaving the…
In a cruise critic article about Carnival safety (good read by the way), at the very end, this is mentioned: The company also has struck a deal to serve as the official cruise line of the 2014 Olympic Games in…
Seems like a normal distance to me. Not the alleged almost collision that the Italian newspapers would lead you to believe. Does it get dicey towards the end as she’s turning to port, eh maybe. But as COLOREGS (link in…