NCL also released their Q1 results. Unlike rival RCI, NCL’s were mostly positive except that it lost money. Although it is still an improvement. Highlights: Revenue increased to $368.0 million EBITDA increased to $81.9 million BUT they lost $10 million…
Royal Caribbean International announced their first Quarter results and they were pretty positive even though price for fuel has been steadily increasing. Highlights Revenues of $1.7 billion Net income $91.6 million See the full presser after the break:
Gene Sloan of USA Today’s CruiseLog posted a photo tour of the brand new Carnival Magic. Check out the insides here
Carnival Announced the itineraries for the final dream class vessel that will sail as the Carnival Breeze. Sailing in June 2012 she will start out with 12-night Med voyages, just like her sister, and then repo down to Miami where…
UPDATE CIN has an update on the status of the rumor. Well if true it won’t be for Royal Caribbean. CIN is reporting that the 74,000grt vessel currently sailing out of Miami could be the ship that Korean operator All…
You be the judge…. source: flickr
Royal Caribbean went public with their 2012-13 Caribbean cruises. Heres the breakdown: Oasis of the Seas will sail alternating 7 night Eastern and Western Caribbean r/t from Port Everglades (Fort Laderdale) Allure of the Seas will sail alternating 7 night…
Carnival Corp., parent company for Carnival Crise Lines, accepted the delivery of the Carnival Magic, marking the 100th ship in the corporations history. After the ceremony the Magic will sail over to Venice where she’ll depart on her inaugural voyage…
From Carnival: Carnival Cruise Lines’ latest “Fun Ship,” the 130,000-ton Carnival Magic, is set to raise the bar on shipboard entertainment with some of the most spectacular shows ever seen at sea. In addition to three spellbinding stage shows that…
The largest cruise line, Carnival, filed suit last week against the companies involved in the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill. In the suit filed in New Orleans, Carnival is seeking “unspecified damages.” The suit states: “that it serves ports in Florida,…
On Easter Sunday, the Italian port of Savona saw 4 port calls from Costa Ships. Savona is sort of like a Red Hook, NY or Cape Liberty, NJ in that one line built it up and pretty much only Costa…
The ex-NCL vessel has been floating around the Greek Isles in a semi-laid-up state. Recently she called at Port Said, Egypt and oddly enough she made the transit through the Suez canal and is about to enter the Indian Ocean.…
Discovery has a sketch of what the future Olympic Venues could look like:
American Cruise Lines has gone public with an ambitious plan to sail 13 Alaskan routes. Commencing summer 2012, the yet to be announced ship will sail from Seattle to Juneau, and then round trip Juneau voyages, before sailing back to…
Unfortunately there are no photos on this one so you’ll have to use your imagination. John Honeywell, aka CaptGreybeard, was given a special tour of the Carnival Magic while undergoing final outfitting in Italy. His tour is below: Magic will…
Massachusetts’ most unlikely and newest cruise port has seen a surprising boom in vessel calls. In 2011 there will be 23 calls mostly comming from American Cruise Line and Holland America. The Canada & New England routes havent seen a…
Royal Caribbean just announced that the Navigator of the Seas will reposition to the caribbean for the winter 2011-12 season. Originally she was supposed to stay in Europe yearound but plans have changed. Instead she will reposition to Port Everglades…
The Mexican cruise ship, Ocean Star Pacific, suffered a Generator fire near the Mexican port of Huatulco. All 800 pax and crew were successfully evacuated using the ports tenders. She was 6 miles off shore. Occuring this morning, the fire…
The Port of Red Hook Brooklyn has now joined Port Everglades, Alaska, and Los Angeles in allowing ships to plug into shore side power. Princess and Cunard both use the new pier in the “hipster” borough of New York. My…
Update:Click here for full size image I preface by saying that this may or may not be a pic of the actual incident. Now that having been said, a 127m long river cruise ship carrying mostly Elderly German pax, collided…
My purchases from the newly opened
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German club line AIDA has christened their newest ship in Germany. Like any AIDA christening it was quite the spectacle with all the fireworks and laser light show. The Godmother was Bettina Zwickler who was the winner of an online…
Hot off the presses comes Royal Caribbean’s Alaska 2012 season. The main story here is the Radiance of the Seas and the Rhapsody of the Seas return for another season. Radiance sails the one way Vancouve-Seaward {and reverse} and the…
From Andy Stuart. I think thats NCL CEO Kevin Sheehan on the far left.