German Hapag-Lloyd Cruises newest ship has just entered service. The HANSEATIC nature is the first ship in their luxury expedition class. VIEW HANSEATIC NATURE DECK PLANS European tour operator TUI Group’s cruise division contains three divisions: the all German TUI…
Celebrity Cruises just took delivery of their next vessel, Celebrity Flora, and she’s unlike any other. VIEW CELEBRITY FLORA DECK PLANS 2019 will be the year of the expedition vessel. Of the 25 vessels due out this year, almost half…
The 1989-built 5,218gt luxary expedition vessel, Silver Discoverer has been sold to CroisiEurope. France’s CroisiEurope specialize in river cruises throughout Europe. They currently operate only one other bluewater vessel, the La Belle de l’Adriatique, but that vessel is basically a…
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019, as well as provided guidance for the second quarter and full year 2019. Highlights The Company generated GAAP net income of $118.2 million or EPS of $0.54 compared to $103.2…
The new Carnival Sunrise (ex-Carnival Triumph) has just set sail on a series of inagural voyages from the East coast. VIEW CARNIVAL SUNRISE DECK PLANS Background As part of a fleetwide enhancement, Carnival Cruise Lines have turned the Carnival Triumph…
A new addition to the CruiseInd Finance Center is Lindblad. First Quarter 2019 Highlights: Tour Revenues increased 9% to $89.7 million Net income available to common stockholders increased $3.9 million to $14.7 million Adjusted EBITDA decreased $0.1 million to $22.0…
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today reported record first quarter results and updated its full year Adjusted EPS guidance to a range of $9.65 to $9.85 per share. This range includes negative impacts of $0.25 related to the incident in the Grand Bahama Shipyard and approximately $0.25 as a…
Australia’s Coral Expeditions took delivery of their largest vessel. VIEW CORAL ADVENTURER DECK PLANS The 120pax purpose build expedition ship was built in Vietnam at VARD. The ship takes its inspiration from the North Sea vessels that VARD has had…
Carnival Corp. has been in the news quite a bit the last two weeks. The main story floating around concerns comments made by a US District Judge for the Southern District of Florida. That hearing was taking place to report…
Update June 04: News broke today that the US government released a statement saying they will officially be revoking recreational travel to Cuba. More on this as cruise lines release their statements. Going forward, the United States will prohibit U.S.…
Costa Cruises just started sailing their first purpose built ship for China. Before we begin looking at her public areas, first some background. Carnival Corp designs ships for multi-brand deployment. The Venezia is part of the Vista-class of ships. She…
Seatrade Cruise Global 2019 has come and gone. Here’s what happened today: The biggest news of the day is Celebrity Cruises announcing that they will build a fifth Edge-class ship. The ship will be built in France, like her sisters,…
Just some quick notes from the show floor from the second day: Viking Ocean Cruises announced that they will start up a new cruise line in China. With the assistance of China Merchants Group, they aim to have cruises world…
Just some quick notes from the show floor from the first day: The day started off with the annual State of the Industry. You can see our recap here as well as my commentary. There was Carnival’s awesome and over…
Archived Live Blog: a year agoApril 9, 2019 Greg Dragonetti And that’s it. Thank’s for following. a year agoApril 9, 2019 Greg Dragonetti Duffy: We have more to come since we have alot of room to play with on this…
Hello and welcome to the 2019 liveblog from the State of the Industry panel from Seatrade Cruise Global. Here’s some general info about it: When: Tuesday 9 April 2019 | 9:30 am – 11:30 am What: Topics include,Sustainable Tourism, Innovation,…
Hello from South Beach! I’ll be attending the Seatrade Cruise Global convention that takes place every year in South Florida. This is the first year that it’s back in Miami after a couple of years in Port Everglades. This is…
UPDATE Tuesday: Royal Caribbean has announced that as a result of damage to the ship, they are canceling the next three cruises (April 7, 14 & 21 [Transatlantic]). There’s speculation that she suffered damage to one of her Azipods. At…
Carnival Corporation & plc announced U.S. GAAP net income of $336 million, or $0.48 diluted EPS, for the first quarter of 2019. First quarter 2019 adjusted net income of $338 million, or $0.49 adjusted EPS, compared to adjusted net income…
Over a year ago, Jul 23, 2018 to be exact, Princess signed a memorandum of understanding with builder Fincantieri. Last year we knew that an agreement was reached for two ships but not much more. With this contract signing we…
The Viking Sky ordeal is over for now. Lets take a look at what remains. UPDATE 3/27: The Norwegian Maritime Authorities have released a statement rather quickly pointing the blame at the oil levels in the Viking Sky’s lube-oil tanks.…
In continuation from our previous thread yesterday, here’s an update on what happened over night. CLICK HERE FOR SATURDAY’S LIVE BLOG OF THE EVENT Viking Sky has now berthed alongside Molde and this cruise will officially end here. Passengers will…
Viking Ocean Cruises 47,800gt ship Viking Sky issues a ‘Mayday’ call off the coast of Norway this morning. CLICK HERE FOR SUNDAY’S LIVE THREAD Late Evening Update: There are 1,373 persons onboard. Of that, only 166 are ashore. The Norwegian…
The Norwegian/UK small ship luxury line announced they will build another vessel. SeaDream currently sail two smaller vessels but have announced that they will be building a third. To be named SeaDream Innovation, she will be built in the Netherlands…
Easily the most anticipated port call on pretty much every Disney cruise is Castaway Cay. Now Disney may have a fierce rival to the Island. Disney Cruise Line has just agreed with the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas for…