Princess cruises newbuild will be launched roughly 2 weeks early, Fincantieri, the Italian yard that’s building her, announced today. Subsequently Princess also announced that instead of the inaugural on June 2, 2014, they have added to additional voyages. The new…
click for larger Back in January the famous Queen Elizabeth 2 was confirmed to have been sold to the Asian Pacific firm, Oceanic Group. That group has announced further details. While we still don’t have all the facts, here’s what…
Aida has named their 2015 newbuild: AIDAprima. Set to be the third large passenger ship out of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan, the 125,000grt ship will make her inaugural voyage on March 22, 2015. She will sail from Tokyo to…
Dockwise has announced that they have been awarded the contract to remove the now upright Costa Concordia. The Dutch company will sail the Dockwise Vanguard to Giglio where the Concordia will be loaded onto the heavy lift vessel. Dockwise is…
Norwegian Cruise Lines has announced the names of their two Breakaway-plus vessels: Norwegian Bliss and Norwegian Escape. Due to launch out of Meyer Werft beginning in 2015, the 163,000grt ships will be similar to the current Breakaway class, but with…
Tradewinds has the exclusive that Genting (Star and NCL’s parent company) have an MOU for the order of one ship from Germany’s Meyer Werft yard. Details are sparse as the deal ‘technically’ isn’t official yet. The usd960 Million vessel will…
When the ex-Grand Mistral is transferred to Costa’s fleet this winter, she will be renamed and rebranded as the Costa neoRiviera. This naming scheme is similar to her fleetmate Costa neoRomantica. She will be deployed to the Middle East with…
The Royal Princess is currently docked in Naples, Italy as the last guests disembark from there shortened cruise. Princess has announced that after their technical team took a look at the situation, there will be no need to cancel her…
Carnival Corp announced non-GAAP net income of $1.1 billion, or $1.38 diluted EPS for the third quarter of 2013 compared to non-GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2012 of $1.2 billion, or $1.53 diluted EPS. For the third quarter…
Britain’s P&O Cruises have announced that their newest ship will be named Britannia. The 141,000grt will carry 3,600 pax. She will be launched in February 2015 and sail her inaugural in March. She will be based on the Royal Princess…
Princess Cruises has announced that due to the electrical issue from yesterday morning, the line will cancel the current voyage. She lost power while on transit to Naples Sunday morning. She is expected to arrive Tuesday morning into Naples where…
According to Cruise Currents, the 2013-built Royal Princess has lost power in the Mediterranean. She was enroute to Naples, Italy. Backup generators are keeping essential safety and guest services still functional. Princess has stated that the crew are currently in…
Cruiseind is taking a little vacation this week. If anything major happens ill post about it. However things may be silent for a while.
This week Princess Cruises Crown Princess rescued Earlier this week, the Crown Princess rescued 158 Syrian refuges from the Mediterranean Sea. They had left Syria and weren’t spotted until they were off the coast of Sicily, Italy. The Italian coastguard…
After 19 hours, the the Parbuckling is done. Originally planned as a 10 hour operation, the salvage team ran into some snags and it went slower than anticipated. We can now see what 20 months under water did to her…
For the first time since January 2012, the Costa Concordia is now upright. You can see in the above photo, from the live video stream, that the water line is now one deck below the bridge. That’s because she is…
STX Finland has announced that they will be closing the Rauma yard. In an effort to condense operations in an attempt to become profitable again, all shipyard work will be transferred to its Turku yard. Jari Anttila, EVP and…
This morning salvage workers began righting the partially capsized Costa Concordia. She is currently being hauled upright by hydraulic cables. Once upright, she’ll sit on a submerged structure before being properly re-floated. Reuters have the live video.
Royal Caribbean announced that they will be cutting 100 ‘low level’ positions inside the company. The goal is to streamline the company. The big news is that Lisa Bauer, the global sales and marketing chief, will also be leaving the…
In a cruise critic article about Carnival safety (good read by the way), at the very end, this is mentioned: The company also has struck a deal to serve as the official cruise line of the 2014 Olympic Games in…
Seems like a normal distance to me. Not the alleged almost collision that the Italian newspapers would lead you to believe. Does it get dicey towards the end as she’s turning to port, eh maybe. But as COLOREGS (link in…
Here’s the first render of what she’ll look like. Shell be an identical sister to Carnvial’s Dream class. When she launches in October 2014, she’ll be the largest ship in Costa’s fleet. She recently had her forward-most block assembled and…
There are some rumors floating around the industry that Royal Caribbean’s 2015 newbuild Anthem of the Seas, will be homeported across the pond in Southampton, UK (either permanently or seasonally). The intent is to replace the Independence of the Seas,…
Venice, Italy has always had an on-again-off-again relationship with the cruise industry. Venice is a huge turnaround and overnight port on Mediterranean cruises. As ship get bigger, they are bringing more and more people to the Italian city. A local…
Tradewinds is reporting that the ship will be repaired in the Bahamas. If that’s the case, that means she has to sail from Alaska, down the west cost and Central America. Transit the Canal, then sail through the Caribbean to…