UPDATE: The Pacific Eden (ex-Statendam) will leave the fleet and head to Cruise & Maritime Voyages. She’ll be deployed to their German sub-brand, TransOcean Kreuzfahrten. The transfer will occur April 2019. Below originally published on: Oct 11, 2018 @ 17:45 Carnival Corp.…
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today reported third quarter results and narrowed its full year Adjusted EPS guidance to a range of $8.75 to $8.85 per share. This range includes a negative impact of approximately $0.10 per share due to a…
MSC Cruises has just announced that they will be building four ‘ultra-luxury cruise ships.’ Each vessel will be built in Italy at one of Fincantieri’s yards. These ships will be 64,000gt and carry only 500 pax. The first of these…
It’s not the clearest of photos but this gives us an idea of what Viking’s US riverboat will look like. The Swiss based company operate the largest European river fleet and are aggressively building blue water ships for their ocean…
Today Silversea and their parent company, Royal Caribbean, announced that they will build three new ships for Silversea Cruises. Silversea has signed a memorandum of understanding with German shipbuilder Meyer Werft to build two vessels in the new “Evolution Class.”…
The first modern riverboat has arrived in New Orelans and will soon begin her service. Up until now, the passenger ships that sail the Mississippi are mostly paddle-wheel vessels sailing either for either American Queen or American Cruise Line. Well…
On September 13, 2018 over 40 homes were completely destroyed in the north Boston suburbs of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover. Excessive pressure in the underground natural gas lines is said to be the culprit. Local media are reporting that as…
The last ship in Lindblad/National Geographic’s Jones-act vessels, the National Geographic Venture has been launched. The event took place last week at Washington’s Nichols Brothers Boat Builders. What’s unique about this is that they still employ the old fashioned slipway to…
Back in August, a few photos of Crystal’s reimagined Diamond-class leaked. Now we have official renders direct from Crystal. The ship is definitely a downsize from the original 100,000gt design. The new ship, still unnamed, is now confirmed to be 67,000gt…
Carnival Corporation & plc announced U.S. GAAP net income of $1.7 billion, or $2.41 diluted EPS, for the third quarter of 2018, higher than U.S. GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2017 of $1.3 billion, or $1.83 diluted EPS.…