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Yahoo News needs to Double check their facts

Yahoo News, the always innovative and current, has come out with a list of new ships sailing in 2012. Topping their list is Costa’s neoRomantica. Pretty sure this isn’t a new ship….

Carnival Captain Wants Jamaica to Change Port

Believe it or not, Carnival Captain Giovanni Cutugno of the Carnival Magic, wants Jamaica to change their port for his ship. "It would be very nice to have something done to make the port [Montego Bay] a little cleaner in…

Dr. Robert Ballard and James Cameron Team up

Never thought I’d see these two team up. I always thought Ballard didn’t like Cameron. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Geographic Society and National Geographic Channel today announced a major cross-platform initiative to commemorate the 100th anniversary…

What-I-Found-on-Shipspotting Wednesday VIII

A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is of the COSTA MAGICA and LOFOTEN. Photographer:    roar jensen Captured:    July 21, 2010   Location:    Honningsvag, Norway

NCL’s Alaska Gamble

Well we all knew that the bubble just burst this past summer for cruises in the Med. I mean Barcelona alone had what like 11 ships homeported there. Who didn’t see this coming. Royal Caribbean was the first to pull…

Introducing to CruiseInd………

Last holiday season I introduced you all to our Mobile Webcam Viewer. The past few months, we’ve been working our butts off modifying and streamlining the code for it. It is with great accomplishment that we launch CruiseInd Mobile Webcams…

What-I-Found-on-Shipspotting Wednesday VII

A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is of the Balmoral moored at Eidjford, Norway Photographer: hmfcooper Captured: June 30, 2009

Cunard & Boardwalk Empire

Check out these two Gems from Sunday’s Boardwalk Empire. Now obviously these are really bad CGI, but do you think these were modeled after real ships? The pictures below are of supposed to be Belfast in 1921.  

Starbucks @ Sea

Everyone’s freaking out in the media right now about Royal Caribbean adding a second Starbucks @ Sea to their fleet. Now maybe I just don’t get it since I am ethically against Starbucks to begin with, but is it really…

What-I-Found-on-Shipspotting Wednesday VI

A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is from Civitavecchia, Italy. Its of Carnival’s newest ship the Carnival Magic. Photographer: Boato Giuseppe Captured: September 07, 2011 Location: Civitavecchia,…

Another Blow to Russian River Cruising

In July we reported about the sinking of a Russian river ship.  Well yesterday, fire broke out on the Sergey Abramov. A crew member is still missing as of this post and two people were taken to the hospital. She…

Latest on the Hijacking of a Turkish Ferry

Here is the latest on the hijacked ferry in Turkey. Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım stated that the assailants are supposedly members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. Turkey has a large Kurdish population in the south who have recently attacked…

Finance Friday: Royal Storm Ahead?

Two weeks ago, we reported on Royal Caribbean’s Q3 earnings. The results were kind of melancholy. Not good, not bad, just ‘eh.’ Afterwards, UBS analyst Robin Farley interpreted the situation as ‘not terrible, not great, but perhaps a situation that…

Ferry Hijacked in Turkey

This is a devolving story….. via BBC Details are sparse but it appears between 1-5 Hijackers have taken hostage 24 people on the ferry Kartepe travelling in the Gulf of Izmit.   file photo:

What-I-Found-on-Shipspotting Wednesday V

A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is of the Sea Dream II. She is seen here leaving the Tejo River near Lisbon, Portugal heading into the Atlantic.…

Finance Friday: NCL Posts Q3 2011 Earnings

Some Highlights with the full results below: Income for the quarter improved 18.3% to $162.7 million Net Revenue grew 4.6% to $491.6 million Expenses from the 2010  launch of Norwegian Epic increase Q3 2010 17.9% increase in the price of…

Costa neoRomantica Starts to take shape

The transformation from a unique looking ship to a ugly looking ship is taking place in Italy’s T. Mariotti shipyard. For those that don’t recall Costa is taking this: and turning it into this: Well I am defiantly looking forward…

What-I-Found-on-Shipspotting Wednesday IV

A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is from Gaspé Bay, Canada. This new addition to Canada & New England Cruises saw its final ship for the season.…

Finance Friday: Royal Caribbean Reports Q3 2011 Earnings

  Some Highlights with the full results below: Net Income grew 14% to $399 million. Net Yields increased 5.3% Revenues improved to $2.3 billion strong demand for its Caribbean and Alaska products increases in excess of 15% in ticket yields…