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Norwegian Getaway Nears Completion
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Viking Ocean Cruises Updates
Viking Ocean Cruises, the blue water expansion of the popular Viking River Cruises, have announced that they have agreed to another 2 more ships to be delivered from Fincantieri. They will be sisters to the Viking Star class at 48,000…
American Cruise Lines Announces They Will be Building 4 New Ships
Connecticut based US Flagged line, American Cruise Line, just announced they will be building 4 new river boat ships. Construction just began on the first two ships with the first entry into service expected to be Spring 2015. Each ship…
Thomson Cruises to Add Balconies to Three Ships
UK Based Thomson Cruises, has announced that they will be adding balconies to three of their ships. The Thomson Celebration, Thomson Spirit and Thomson Majesty should all have balconies added buy this time next year. The Thomson Celebration (ex-Noordam) will have 26…
More Legal Troubles for Bimini Superfast
Apparently a while ago, the US Customs and Boarder Protection would not let the Bimini Superfast sail on evening gambling cruises roundtrip out of Miami. Seatrade is reporting that Resorts World Bimini are now taking them to court. Resorts World Bimini…
New Cruise Port: Bimini
Genting Group has officially broken ground on North Bimini Island in The Bahamas. Their intent is to re-develop the island and add a huge resort with casino. The 750-acre property will feature almost 400 rooms. It is expected to be completed…
Thomson to Base Ship Out of Jamaica
UK based and sourced line Thomson Cruises have announced that they will base the Thomson Dream (ex-Costa Europa, Westerdam) out of Montego Bay Jamaica during the winter 2014/2015 season. She’ll be the only ship to be based out of the…
[VIDEO] Ocean Countess Fire
[embedvideo id=”iU-4TxE6W4w” website=”youtube”] Majestic International’s Ocean Countess caught fire over the weekend. Initial reports had her in a shipyard just north of Athens, Greece when the fire started. There were only five crew onboard who all were able to…
Louis Cristal Begins Her Cuban Deployment
While the trade embargo still exists between Cuba and the U.S., Cuba Cruises is sailing passengers on a circumnavigation of the Island. Cruise Industry News has more and this photo of her in her new livery. According to the site,…
Princess to Alter Regal Princess’ Deckplans
Princess cruises just announced that they will be making a few, somewhat, major changes to the Regal Princess’ layout. The 141,000gt ship, due to launch spring of 2014, will incorporate venues that passengers were missing onboard her currently sailing sister, Royal…
Anthem of the Seas to be Homeported in Britain/Port Everglades
UPDATE APRIL 17, 2014: Anthem of the seas will not be going to Port Everglades anymore. The ship will sail to New York/ New Jersey. Originally Published on: Nov 21, 2013 @ 12:40 Royal Caribbean just announced that when launched in 2015,…
Anthem of the Seas Keel Laying
Royal Caribbean is celebrating the laying of their soon-to-be newest ship keel at Meyer Werft Shipyard in Germany. The keel-laying signifies the beginning of the ship’s physical construction. During the ceremony, a 620-ton block measuring 59 feet by 121 feet (18…
Formosa Queen (ex-Ocean Pearl, Song of Norway) Headed To the Scrappers
The ship that launched Royal Caribbean, the 1970-built Song of Norway has reportedly been sold to a scrap yard. She was currently sailing as a gambling ship in Taiwan as the Formosa Queen for Formosa Queen Corp of Taiwan. The demolition…
Norwegian Getaway Takes to the Sea
The Norwegian Getaway has just departed on her first Sea trial based out of Eemshaven. Over the weekend she transited the Ems river towards the North Sea as she left Meyer Weft for the last and final time. Here are…
Brilliance of the Seas in Tampa
Royal Caribbean released the above photo of the Brilliance of the Seas departing her new homeport on Saturday. Check out the ship in the background. That’s the rival Carnival Paradise. Surprised they didn’t Photoshop her out.
More Information On Allure Shipyard Visit
Yesterday Royal Caribbean announced that they will be sending the Allure of the Seas to the Grand Bahama Shipyard to repair her propulsion system. The original plan was to swap her with Oasis, whose dry dock was scheduled in 2015…
Royal Caribbean Announced Allure Will Enter Shipyard in Feb 2014 for Repairs
Royal Caribbean has announced that they will sail the Allure of the Seas to Freeport, Bahamas to fix a worn bearing. It was originally discussed that she may sail to Europe to enter the drydock over there, however Grand…
Royal Caribbean Mulling Decision to Drydock Allure of the Seas
It’s being reported that the largest cruise ship has been forced to sail at reduced speeds for some time now. The 225,282gt ship is suffering from pod problems according to Royal Caribbean spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez. She states that while the pod is…
Norwegian Cruise Line to Feature Wii U Onboard Its Ships
Norwegian Cruise Line and Nintendo of America announced that they are expanding their partnership to offer Wii U ™ video game systems and Wii U games fleetwide. As part of the partnership expansion, the line will feature Nintendo’s newest video…
Busy Day in Miami with 9 Ships
This morning 9 cruise ships sailed into and berthed at the Port of Miami. This will be the busiest day of the 2013-2014 season and one of the busiest days in a long time. Below is a collection of…
Pacific Princess Refuses to Die
Peter Knego of MaritimeMatters is reporting that the Pacific Princess is now having another listing problem. Last month the Pacific Princess was reflaoted upright after almost capsizing after arriving at the scrap yard in Turkey. Now, shes developing a list…
Royal Caribbean Thanksgiving Day Parade Float
Royal Caribbean announced that they will once again have a prominent float in the annual turkey day tradition. via Royal Caribbean: Royal Caribbean International and Macy’s today revealed the first look at the cruise line’s new float, which will set…
Disney Magic Makes Surprise Visit to Miami This Afternoon
In this AIS Screenshot, the Disney Magic had to divert to Miami to pick up a ” spare part” in a technical port call. Meaning she docked for a very short time and pax weren’t allowed off. Cruise Currents…
Mein Schiff 3 Floated Out Today
TUI cruises Mein Schiff 3 has been officially floated out today in Turku, Finland. Shes scheduled to sail out of the yard this summer. The even was overshadowed by the struggles of STX Finland which recently announced its plan to restructure…
More Details on the Norwegian Getaway Super Bowl Charter
Back in August, Norwegian Cruise Line announced that they were going to be altering their newest ships Inaugural festivities. Today it was announced that Bud Light, more specifically Anheuser-Busch inBev, are the charterers of the ship. They will transform her into…