via PRNewswire: Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest travel and leisure company, today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China Merchants Group (CMG) to explore the possibility of two joint ventures designed to accelerate the development and growth of…
Seabourn has announced that it’s two newest ships will be named Seabourn Encore and Seabourn Ovation. They will launch in late 2016 and early 2018 respectively. Both ships will be based on the Odyssey class but will both be slightly larger. They’ll…
A rather tense turnaround day for Royal Caribbean in New Orleans yesterday. While traveling up the Mississippi River yesterday morning, the 90,090gt Serenade of the Seas experienced ‘navigational issues,’ then a burst pipe led to flooding of several cabins and…
At 4:00 am this morning, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines ship Boudicca (ex-Royal Viking Sky, Sunward, SuperStar Capricorn) suffered a small engine room fire off the coast of Morocco. The fire was quickly contained, and there have been no injuries to…
via Celebrity: Inspired by light, exceptional food, wine and luxury, Luminae is Celebrity Cruises’ new exclusive dining experience for suite passengers. Luminae will be introduced beginning in April. John Suley, Celebrity’s James Beard-featured executive chef, said he wants Luminae diners to…
After running aground on her Halloween voyage from West Palm Beach to Freeport, the Bahamas Celebration been laid up in Freeport ever since. Her replacement has already been arranged. As there is no need for her and the damage is apparently quite bad,…
After the Bahamas Celebration (ex-Prinsesse Ragnhild) ran aground on approach to Freeport on Halloween, the executives from Celebration Cruise Line have started Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line. After the closure of Ibero Cruises, Costa took possession of both the Grand Celebration (ex-Celebration) and…
When the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro start up, 3,963 guests will be staying onboard the Norwegian Getaway. The IOC has announced that they time chartered the ship for the duration of the summer games. She’ll provide Rio de Janeiro…
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Hopefully this concludes this saga. Italian ministers have announced that they won’t go through with the ban on cruise ships sailing into Venice. Their regional court of appeals overturned the previous ban. There’s always the possibility that a new group will voice…
This event has ended Carnival is currently holding a meeting for press and travel agents in both the UK and in New York. Here’s the highlights from the current announcements. Carnival Vista will sail in Europe in 2016. Homeported out…
These look legitimate. There’s a bunch of interior shots as well, however I found these to be quite a bit more interesting. The addition of the aft pool area explains the reasoning in lengthening the LOA of the ship. This…
UPDATE TUESDAY: The Nova Star has arrived off port limits of Charleston, SC. She’s currently drifting at 2kts. I’ll keep following her and report back if she maneuvers for berthing tomorrow. The Nova Star, which during the summer, transports…
According to Royal Caribbean’s website under Oasis and Allure’s pages: The scheduled introduction of dynamic dining on Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas has been postponed until later in the year. Oasis of the Seas and Allure…
from Carnival: Kathie Lee Gifford, former spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Line, returned to “The World’s Most Popular Cruise Line®” Sunday to introduce her GIFFT Collection of wines at a tasting event for cruise guests on Carnival Breeze at PortMiami. The…
Windstar cruises purchased the elder Seabourn trio a short while back. We know the Seabourn Pride, the first to get transferred, will be named Star Pride. The other two ships will be renamed Star Breeze and Star Legend.
This one is all but confirmed but here it goes. MSC recently released a press release (which has since been redacted) when their latest ship to enter drydock for the Renaissance stretching program. Contained in there, and saved by CruiseIndustryNews, was…
Kevin Sheehan will be leaving Norwegian Cruise Line. The current CEO of Prestige, Frank Del Rio, will take over. More on this story as it develops. Press Release at the bottom of this post. It was under his leadership that Mr.…
via NCL: Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest and largest ship, Norwegian Escape, will offer a wide array of spaces for guests to relax and unwind while at sea when the ship debuts in October 2015. Guests will be transported into sheer…
Carnival has just announced the Carnival Miracle Fun Ship 2.0 drydock enhancements. When completed she’ll sail yearound from Long Beach, CA. via Carnival: The new features – part of the line’s ongoing Fun Ship 2.0 product enhancement initiative – will…
Rather quietly AIDA is building one impressive vessel. Make sure to click on the picture above to get a zoomed in look of her features. from Aida: For the first time on the German cruise market, the new flagship of…
UPDATE: It turns out that all initial reports in German media, where the story origionated from, redacted their story and said that it was an error. The Deutschland is not up for sale. As for Crystal’s announcement; it was their…
From Carnival Corp: Carnival Corporation & plc announced non-GAAP net income for the full year 2014 of $1.5 billion, or $1.96 diluted EPS, compared to non-GAAP net income of $1.2 billion, or $1.58 diluted EPS, for the prior year. Full…
Carnival announced just now that they have come to an agreement with longtime partner Fincantieri for the construction of one vessel for Carnival and one for Holland America. Carnival’s ship will be 3,954 pax and set for delivery in March 2018.…