We finally have details of Carnival’s 9 ship order. LNG is always thought of as the future so its nice to see it’s finally here. It will be exciting if theses are a radically new design. Because of the way…
The popular cruises to nowhere concept will be no more. At least for departures out of the US that is. A cruise to nowhere is when a ship leaves a port, spends one or two days at sea, then goes back…
Background Last week, Carnival Corporation & plc launched their 10th brand, fathom (the ‘f’ is lowercase). They will transfer the 2001-built, 30,277gt Adonia (ex-R Eight, Minerva II, Royal Princess) from P&O Cruises to this new brand. The concept behind fathom…
This is a neat concept until fully LNG powered ships are launched. When launched, fleetmate AIDAprima will be able to operate off of LNG while in port. Under this concept being tested in Hamburg, all electricity needed onboard will be generated…
Haimark Line has just started sailing the ms Saint Laurent on New England and Atlantic Canada cruises. The ship is the ex-Cape May Light, Clipper Voyager, and Sea Voyager. This is a former US Flagged vessel that once sailed for…
Our liveblog is here. Here’s the website for Fathom. And below is the full press release on Carnival Corp.’s exciting new venture: via carnival corp. Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest travel and leisure company, today named Tara Russell…
Hello all and welcome to the live blog of Carnival Corp’s big announcement in New York City. 1:10pm: My Wild Guess: I’m hoping for details on the big 9 ship order placed earlier in the year but it might be…
There was originally a rumor that the German ship Deutschland was going to be sold. Then we found out that it was sold, but the buyer was anonymous. Now we can say, with confidence that the ship was sold to…
According to two sources, quite reliable I might add, Virgin cruises is getting ready to sign a contract with Italy’s Fincantieri to construct two 180,000gt ships. It was either going to be Meyer [Finland or Germany] or Fincantieri. The decision…
German line TUI Cruises have announced that they will transfer two cruise ships, Mein Schiff 1 (ex-Celebrity Galaxy) and Mein Schiff 2 (ex-Celebrity Mercury ), over to its sister-line, Thomson Cruises. This will greatly reduce Thomson’s average fleet age which is currently…