Cruise Market Watch compiled the following list to break down each canceled cruises potential revenue. This excludes revenue from onboard sales and is indicative of only the ticket sales. Sail Date Revenue 8/16/2013 $ 3,058,593 8/23/2013 $ 2,908,601 8/30/2013…
Celebrity announced this morning that they made the decision that to cancel the remaining 4 cruises in her Alaska deployment. She’s currently stuck in Ketchikan, Alaska after ending her cruise early yesterday. Celebrity plans on having her fully repaired and…
Celebrity has decided to cancel the current cruise of the Millennium. Guests will be flown back from Ketchikan. She’s due to depart from Anchorage on her next cruise on August 23rd. No word on the status of that one yet.…
Due to issues with a switchboard problem in the ships control room, Princess Cruises have decided to cancel her first post-drydock departure. She was originally scheduled to depart today from Singapore on a 14-night one-way route to Australia. However when…
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The original itinerary of Rotterdam or Southampton to Miami has been replaced with Rotterdam/Southampton to New York. The reason; the Norwegian Getaway has been privately chartered from January 29, 2014 to February 5, 2014 for Super Bowl XLVIII. It will…
A week after she was stranded in Seward, Alaska and had to eliminate all ports from her subsequent cruise, she broke down over the weekend. Reports were surfacing on message boards, and Cruise Critic first reported it. No word yet…
UPDATE: It will be called Nova Star. IMO number: 9462067. Its the ex-Norman Leader built in Singapore for English Channel crossings. Originally Published on: Aug 16, 2013 @ 12:48 Here’s the photos taken from their website. Still cant find a ship name…
Cruise Critic is reporting that Holland America’s Prinsendam will have to remain longer in its scheduled drydock in October. The extra time will allow shipyard workers to fix a stabilizer issue that’s been plaguing the ship for some time.…
…Quest Navigation of Maine. Quest Navigation Inc. will form a joint venture with International Shipping Partners of Miami and ST Marine of Singapore. The new firm will be called STM Quest. She will start sailing in 2014 between Portland, Maine…
75 acres in Southern Belize will be converted into an eco-friendly cruise terminal. NCL will invest $50 million to turn Harvest Caye into their private port. This seems like it will be NCL’s version of Royal Caribbean’s Labadee in Haiti.…
Rumors are swirling that she was damaged in a storm on her way to the scrappers. That could explain the increase in list. Or its by design in the scrapyard that they are ballasting her like this to access something…
Russian port authorities have announced that they have time chartered NCL’s Norwegian Jade as well as the former Baltic, now Mediterranean, ferry SNAV Toscana for the winter Olympics. The ships will be used as accommodation vessels. This is pretty similar…
When first launched in 2000, the brand new Celebrity Millennium featured rotating pods on her stern in place of traditional shaft and rudder. Finland’s ABB had been supplying Carnival and Royal Caribbean vessel with their popular and reliable Azipods for…
The historic Pacific (ex-Pacific Princess, Sea Venture) rose to fame as the original Love Boat from the popular TV Series. Since her days with Princess she’s sailed for Pullmantur and the recent start-up Quail cruises. The photo above is…
Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCLH) successful IPO has spurred a second offering of common stock. UBS and Barclays will be underwriting it. In a S-1 filing obtained by Seatrade, the breakdown is as follows: Genting HK (Star NCLC) offering 10m shares…
Part of what makes fueling a ship with LNG so difficult is the supply of bunkers(fuel). Every port where they need to take on bunkers must have an adequate supply and special equipment for discharging it into the intended vessel.…
Insurance payouts are reportedly about to top usd$1.1 billion as workers continue to attempt to salvage the ship. The Reinsurer Munich Re said that the ship had a hull value of usd$500 million. The rest of the costs are from…
As they promised to do in the recent congressional hearing. Here are the voluntarily released crime statistics form the big three. Carnival Corp Norwegian Cruise Line Royal Caribbean
via Cruise Business Online STX Shipbuilding & Offshore has decided to sell its 66% stake in STX France and 100% holding in STX Finland as part of efforts to restore the financial health of the debt-ridden company.
Locals in Venice are claiming that the Carnival Sunshine sailed too close to the shore when sailing by Riva Sette Martiri, to give guests a view of the famous Piazza San Marco. The above photo via the DailyMail shows how…
In short, NCL posted a reasonably positive-mixed quarterly earnings. They beat their earnings per share by $0.02, however missed their target revenue by $14.86 million. This last parts a killer. Their stock is trading lower now because of it. But…
Royal Caribbean just received City and port approval to build a new $70 million terminal in Bayonne. No doubt this is to accommodate the new Quantum of the Seas when she’s homeported there next year. Royal Caribbean is said to…
During yesterday’s congressional hearing, US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Joseph Servidio testified regarding the Grandeur of the Seas fire back in May. While still no cause was given, he was able to elaborate as to why it got to be…
Royal Caribbean’s right on track with their forecasting. Their $0.11 EPS was up from their guidance of $0.09. Their revenue of $1.88 billion misses by only $10 million. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE, OSE: RCL) today reported second quarter results,…