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Carnival Corp. announced 2 newbuild agreements they entered into. The first deal inked with Carnival Favorite Fincanteri, calls for one ship for Italian/European brand Costa Crociere. The unnamed vessel will come in at 132,500grt. making her the largest for Costa…
Here is a story our of left field. It turns out that the third installment of the heavily scoffed at Alvin and the Chipmunks series will be taking place on the Carnival Dream. The series stars Arrested Development’s Tobias Fünke…
On Tuesday, as the Carnival Imagination was all tied up alongside Key West, she was bumped by the maneuvering Carnival Fantasy. No passengers were injured and the ships sailed safely from the ports. The ships only suffered a minor cosmetic…
Good news CCL stock holders. You are a bit richer today, as Carnival had declared a dividend today of $0.25 / share. The record date will be August 26, 2011, with payment, September 16, 2011.
MIAMI, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) reported net income of $206 million, or $0.26 diluted EPS, on revenues of $3.6 billion for its second quarter ended May 31, 2011. Net income for…
Yesterday I teased about Carnival making a big announcement today and here it is! I’ll update this post once I get details. But its looking like it’ll be 8-nighters. (Photo Credit: Flickr user Jersey JJ via Creative Commons license) UPDATE:…
Carnival will be making an announcement tomorrow morning about their future deployment out of New York. Stay tuned. If anything leaks beforehand, I’ll update the post.
In what would seem to be an inevitable action, the People of South Carolina have filed a lawsuit against Panama-based Carnival Cruise Lines. They claim that cruise ships hurt the environment [which no one is doubting], and that cruise lines…
Italian site pazzoperilmare, has the below construction photos of the Carnival Breeze being built in Italy.
Carnival has just announced that in 2012 the Carnival Glory will sail part of her summer Canada and New England out of Boston. The voyages will mirror her current 2011 schedule with 4 & 5 Night trips to St. John…
From The PR Newswire: SEATTLE, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — In a move that’s a first for the premium cruise line, Holland America Line will deploy ms Rotterdam from Europe year-round starting in September, 2012, on a series of extended…
Gene Sloan of USA Today’s CruiseLog posted a photo tour of the brand new Carnival Magic. Check out the insides here
Carnival Announced the itineraries for the final dream class vessel that will sail as the Carnival Breeze. Sailing in June 2012 she will start out with 12-night Med voyages, just like her sister, and then repo down to Miami where…
Carnival Corp., parent company for Carnival Crise Lines, accepted the delivery of the Carnival Magic, marking the 100th ship in the corporations history. After the ceremony the Magic will sail over to Venice where she’ll depart on her inaugural voyage…
From Carnival: Carnival Cruise Lines’ latest “Fun Ship,” the 130,000-ton Carnival Magic, is set to raise the bar on shipboard entertainment with some of the most spectacular shows ever seen at sea. In addition to three spellbinding stage shows that…
The largest cruise line, Carnival, filed suit last week against the companies involved in the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill. In the suit filed in New Orleans, Carnival is seeking “unspecified damages.” The suit states: “that it serves ports in Florida,…
Unfortunately there are no photos on this one so you’ll have to use your imagination. John Honeywell, aka CaptGreybeard, was given a special tour of the Carnival Magic while undergoing final outfitting in Italy. His tour is below: Magic will…
Here are the official press shots of the trials in the Adratic Sea the other week.
The Carnival Pride was docked in Port Canaveral as a port of call. Shes one of the few ships that do. Well yesterday during one such call, several strong gusts of wind snapped her mooring lines around 6pm. Carnival reported…
Carnival announced that the Valor will sail 6 night western caribbean and alternate it with 3 different 8 night trips. The itineraries are definitely unique! The 6 night visits Key West, Grand Cayman, and Ocho Rios and starts in January…
Spotted on Shipspotting, the Carnival Magic gets ready for her May 1st inaugural voyage. The is seen cruising the Adriatic Sea on March 20th.
Today Carnival Corp went public with their first quarter earnings for 2011. Highlights include: Net Income of $152 million. Total Revenue of $3.4 billion. Compared to last year’s Q1, income is down but revenue is up. This can be contributed…
Found this press release: Building on the successful design of the world’s largest single-ship cruise terminal, Port Everglades is following a similar approach to renovate four existing cruise terminals that will be used for Carnival Corporation’s newest and largest cruise…
UPDATE FRIDAY:Carnival finally came clean with it. Turns out Mobile will lose all ships as the Elation will head to NOLA and do what the Ecstasy was supposed to do. Port Canaveral beat Carnival to the punch by announcing that…
Remember the ship Carnival Splendor. I know you do. In fact the whole world knows of it. It even made it to South Park. The ship is STILL laid up in California after the engine room fire, crippled the ship…