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Carnival Splendor damaged by Fishing Nets

photo via flickr from a prior drydock When sailing on her New Years cruise, she seems to have run over some drifting fishing nets. They got wrapped around the prop and damaged some of the seals. The damage is not…

Carnival To Reshuffle Tonnage

Beginning January 2014 Carnival Cruise Lines will expand capacity on the West Coast with the introduction of year-round three and four-day cruises on the 2,052-passenger Carnival Imagination from Long Beach, CA. The 1995 built Carnival Imagination will offer three-day cruises to Ensenada,…

Interesting New Itineraries from Carnival

Carnival Cruise Lines, to me, is not know for a diversity of itineraries. Don’t get me wrong, they have 24 vessels operating from more ports in the US than any other line. However, most of those ships sail the same…

Carnival Exploring Selling Older Tonnage

Kari Reinikainen over at Cruise Business has in interesting rumor: Carnival Corp & plc, the world’s largest cruise shipping group, may sell some of the older vessels in its fleet as newbuildings enter service, Chairman and CEO Micky Arison said.…

Carnival Orders New Ship (and Holland America)

Hot on the heels of NCL’s shocking newbuild order, industry giant Carnival has placed an order for a 135,000grt vessel for Carnival Cruise Lines. Scheduled to launch in 2016, she will represent a new class of vessel for the line.…

Carnival Q3 2012 Results

Carnival Corporation & plc announced non-GAAP net income of $1.2 billion, or $1.53 diluted earnings per share, for the third quarter of 2012. Reported U.S. GAAP net income, which includes unrealized gains on fuel derivatives of $136 million, was $1.3…

Carnival doing a Pintrest??

Sign me up! Oh wait I don’t use Pintrest*. Anyways, still always great to see even industry giants using social websites. Carnival on Pintrest And Click Here For Carnivals Pintrest Contest and Win a Free Cruise. *Not out of spite…

Carnival Dream Drydock Photos

In what is becoming a popular trend, and one I do enjoy, cruise lines have flocked to social media streams with updates from their ships drydockings. Here is an update from the Carnival Dream’s drydocking in Freeport, Bahamas.    …

Crown Princess Suffers Small Fire

It was reported yesterday that while transiting between Corfu and Piraeus, a small electrical fire developed in a passenger cabin. It was quickly extinguished and the displaced passengers were given new cabins.

Oh Sheesh!

On the Carnival Breeze. via Carnival PR

Carnival’s Statement on Carnival Breeze Fire?

Travel Agent Central initially reported that it was a fire that caused smoke to be seen inside Carnival newest ship cruising the Med. However Carnival’s PR dept. issued the following statement: A fan belt inside an AC unit in a…

Carnival Breeze Delivered

Italy’s Fincantieri’s Monfalcone yard has just delivered the Carnival Breeze to Carnival Cruise Lines. The 130,000grt ship will be one of the first Carnival Corp.’s ships post Joe Farcus and Carnival Cruise Lines (CCL) first. The interiors were designed by…

Mariner of the Seas to Sail From China

via RoyalCaribbeanBlog: Mariner of the Seas will arrive in China in June 2013 and offer a number of itineraries from 3 to 12 nights. The addition of Mariner of the Seas will offer additional capacity to a Chinese cruise market…

RUMOR: Costa Orders Second Ship

And they said the Costa brand was dead…. When Carnival ordered 3 ships for AIDA/Costa back in August, there was a provision for a second ship for Costa. Rumor has it that Carnival my be close to picking up that…

Carnival Breeze Dinning Options

Here’s the latest on Carnival Breeze’s new Dining options: Bonsai Sushi – Carnival’s first full-service sushi restaurant, Bonsai Sushi offers a wide variety of Asian-inspired delicacies with a contemporary decor featuring artwork by world-renowned graffiti artist Erni Vales, colorful koi…

Financial Analysts Bearish on CCL

Alex Planes, The Motley Fool: It’s little surprise that the company has failed to recapture pre-recession highs, as its key metrics look worse than they did before the crash. Free cash flow, again erratic over the five-year period, is up…

Carnival Announced Boston Deployment

With Carnival’s first extended cruise program from Boston starting up in just six weeks, the line and Crusieport Boston announced that the Carnival Glory will return to the refurbished Black Falcon Cruise Terminal in 2013 to operate a series of…