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Liberty of the Seas Lifeboat Drill: LIVE

Going on live right now… via Portfever

Look What I Found in a Screenshot From the New Sim City

Check out the cruise ship towards the bottom of the image. Looks like one of the original Seaborne sisters. via VoxGames

Rhapsody of the Seas Emerges from Drydock

Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas just emerged from a month long drydock at Singapore’s Sembawang Shipyard. The new Rhapsody of the Seas features new dining options, revamped entertainment and unique amenities. She will sail Alaska in the summer and…

Azamara Quest Catches On Fire in Pacific

While sailing between the Philippines and Borneo, an engine room fire broke out onboard Azamara Club Cruises’ Azamara Quest. The fire on the 30,277grt ship was first reported by a BBC Broadcast Journalist on twitter: hearing reports a cruise…

NCL Does it again!: Love for Sail

NCL ships will play a major part in Lifetime’s newest show, Love for Sail. Debuting April 10th at 10pm, the show sends 4 men and 4 women on a cruise, their challenge: find love. (yuck) Ships said to be…

Royal Caribbean New Commercial goof?

Does anybody think Royal Caribbean should be considerate of the video frame that YouTube chooses to render its thumbnail of the video. I mean I understand that Jenny McCarthy is an absolute mess of a person, and the thumbnail is…

Norwegian Breakaway Deck Plans Updated

NCL released the latest Deck Plans. Take a look at the recently announced Waterfront area. Click Here For Norwegian Breakaway Deck Plans

[UPDATED] RUMOR: Has the QE2 been sold?

A press release was released today claiming that Universal Event Management (UEM) of Macau have just received the “rights to represent the QE2 in a number of locations.” Locations are said to be the SAR Macau and Atlantic City, New…

Carnival Sending Conquest to Miami and Sunshine to New Orleans

An odd choice, but exciting nonetheless. Carnival announced yesterday that the Carnival Conquest will reposition over to Miami in November 2013 to make room for the Carnival Sunshine (ex-Carnival Destiny) in NOLA. New Orleans originally lost the Conquest to Galveston…

Costa Concordia’s bunkers, all pumped out

Costa and local Italian officials announced today that they have finally pumped all bunkers (fuel) out of the ship. The operation began on February 12th and workers have been removing the fuel oil around the clock ever since. Total cost…

UPDATE 5 More Bodies Found Inside Costa Concordia

UPDATE: This morning brought the news that there are now 5 bodies found and not the original 3. They are said to all have been found lying on the seabed, underneath the submerged superstructure. Italian officials have just found three…

Monarch of the Seas transferred to Pullmantur

Royal Caribbean just made it official that the 1991 built, 73,941grt ship will be leaving their fleet. She will be joining the Spanish brand Pullmantur, joining her sister, the Sovereign. Transfer date will be April 1, 2013, meaning her last…

Silver Shadow Collides with Container Vessel in Vietnam

UPDATE TUESDAY: Here’s the damage to the Silver Shadow CNN iReports has the following: We’re on Silversea silver shadow cruise ship and we just collided with a Vietnamese container ship near Halong bay, Vietnam. We slammed into the…

Breakdown of Norwegian Breakaway Surcharges

Chris Owen of Chris Cruises has this comprehensive breakdown of what the surcharges and fees will be for all the new venues on the Norwegian Breakaway. Moderno Churrascaria ($18 surcharge will apply) Cagney’s Steakhouse ($25 surcharge will apply) La Cucina…

Introducing the “AirCruise”

Check out this fascinating concept. In what is a joint partnership between Mauiva and Travel Holdings, guests will essentially sail the skies hopping from one destination to another. The service is described as follows: By destination-hopping via private plane through private…

Costa Concordia’s Bell Stolen from Wreck

News broke today that apparently the ships bell has been stolen. The all brass fixture with “COSTA CONCORDIA” written on it, was taken somewhere around 2 weeks ago. Police say they don’t have any suspects, but do have some leads.…

C.E.-D’oh: Featuring NCL’s Kevin Sheehan

Here is an amazing quote from NCL’s CEO Kevin Sheehan: “Thank god we are building the [Breakaway] in Germany,” said Sheehan, as Norwegian Cruise Line is back with Meyer Werft, which built previous generations of the cruise line’s ships. –CIN…

Wanna see what the Royal Princess looks like?

Click for larger Quite a stubby little bow. Does it look a lot like a Solstice class to anyone else?

BREAKING: NCL Releases Details of Norwegian Breakaway with Outdoor Promenade

Honestly, I’m a little freaked out by by this. Turns out I guessed it almost exactly right back in October. This is still a developing story… check back as NCL releases updates from Cruise Shipping Miami. 9.42am: The Waterfront &…

Minor Royal Princess details leak out

We have our first CruiseShipping Miami announcement. Princess announced that their newest 141,000grt ship the Royal Princess have a revamped Dining experience. The Horizon Court buffet will feature new venues with new cuisine options.They include a taqueria, rotissseie, a sandwich…

MSC Preziosa Official Finally!

News broke this morning at seatrade the MSC has officially acquired the firmer Libyan ship. The deal is worth $550 million Euros ($718 Million USD). What started in September, then visually confirmed in February, is finally officially confirmed in March.