Alaskan Dream Cruises has just formed and will sail two smallships from the former Cruise West. The Alaskan-based Allen Marine Tours purchased the 78-pax Spirit of Columbia and Spirit of Alaska. They will be renamed the Admiralty Dream and Baranof…
NCL finally went public today with their new build plans to build 2 post-panamax vessels in Germany’s Meyer Werft yard. They wil deput in Spring 2013 & 2014. The unnamed ships will be in 143,500 GRT each and have 4,000…
The Costa Classica, that has involved in the collision in china, has been “repaired” in Changxing, China. It took just 96 hours. I say repaired in quotes because, my understanding, she was just made seaworthy. That means they made the…
UK news site, Daily Mail, have posted pictures detailing the damage the Costa Classica sustained from the Cargo vessel yesterday.
Quite the story I came home to. The Costa Classica of Costa Cruises collided this morning with a cargo vessel in China. The incident occured in a deep water channel near the Yangtze River. The 1,300 pax ship was traveling…
Princess Cruises Island Princess was the first ship to hook up to shore side power while docked in San Francisco. The ship literally plugs into power cables from the dock. Several of Princess Cruises ships are equipped with the ability…
Cunard Line, Ocean Village Holidays and P&O Cruises will emphasize a reduction in fuel, water, and waste in 2009-2010. These joint lines form a division of Carnival called Carnival UK. This new green strategy comes courtesy of their first sustainability…
Massachusetts Port Authority, known as Masport, officially opened a new, renovated, section of Black Falcon Terminal. The former World War I warehouse is at the end of an $11 million refurbishment plan that will meet the growing demand of the…
Today we saw the introduction of a new Queen. The Queen Elizabeth was christened by Her Majesty The Queen today in Southampton. The 1,600 invited guests saw the white wine bottle break against the ships hull on the first try.…
In the above photo, Cunard President Peter Shanks holds the keys to the vessel that he then handed over to the Captain, Christopher Wells. As all my readers know, ships do not use keys to turn the engine on, but…