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I was able to dig up some more details of the Breakaway Plus. The ship will cost 700 million euros. NCL was able to get the financing form the German bank, KfW IPEX-Bank. CIN has more detials: The ship’s contract…
Stories have been surfacing the past few days from onboard P&O’s Ventura, that the ship was damaged in a storm off the French Coast in the Bay of Biscay. The worst is the above crack. Said to be wider than 2-in.,…
Royal Caribbean, along with several local developers, are aiming to develop a new port/terminal in Barbados. Their new website has just gone live. Take a look and see if you like the idea.
Hard to tell the difference. She’s supposedly larger than Breakaway. Looks stretched in the forward superstructure. I guess we’ll know when they release the deckplans.
Norwegian Cruise Line announced today that it has reached an agreement with MEYER WERFT GMBH of Germany to build a new cruise vessel, for delivery in October 2015, with the option for a second ship for delivery in spring 2017.…
Rob Lightbody writing for The QE2 Story wrote the following: I’m hearing from a good contact, that ship brokers have been getting contacted about the possible scrapping of a 300m cruise ship based in UAE. That could surely only be…
Having just been delivered to Celebrity cruises, the last in the Solstice line, the 122,000grt Celebrity Reflection was photographed sailing into and out of Amsterdam. Check out the below shots courtesy of shipspotting. As usual, click for larger. Photographer: Wim.Vrolijk…
From Boston.com: Officials said no one was hurt when a boat carrying 93 cruise ship passengers ran aground off Bar Harbor, Maine. Harbor Master Charles Phippen said the boat, a tender, was taking passengers from Bar Harbor back to the…
That is one beg stern!