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Titanic II Plans Leak Out

CIN found these plans for the Titanic II. You may recall, this is the one that the Australian billionaire is trying to build. Common sense says she’ll never hit the water and I’m as skeptical as everyone else is about the project.…

Royal Princess Fitness Details Announced

  Princess Cruises today revealed the sports and fitness features that will be aboard the new Royal Princess when the ship debuts next June. Passengers of all athletic abilities can test their mettle and keep in shape with a new…

Fire Breaks out on River Ship

A fire broke out Friday aboard the Regina Rheni while she was cruising the Rhine. Tauck’s MS Swiss Sapphire was first on the scene and was able to rescue the pax off the ship. There are no serious injuries reported…

Seabourn Selling their Ships?

Rumor has it that Seabourn has some ‘feelers’ out there to see if there are any interested buyers. So far it looks like they are just trying to dump some older tonnage i.e. the 3 older sisters, Pride, Spirit and…

Obligatory Liberty of the Seas Comment

If you been checking out the other cruise sites lately, I’m sure you read about the Liberty of the Seas ‘near collision’ (as CruiseCritic puts it) with a small Italian fishing boat. It gained pretty quick attention and was used…

Viking Ocean Cruises Newbuild Goes Official

After falling through with STX yards and switching the bid to Italy’s Fincanteri, the contract was officially signed. The contract calls for 2, 47,000grt ships with a capacity of about 944.

Dear Port Fever

Stop penalizing those who are tech savvy enough to block all ad networks on their personal network. It’s safer and faster to block them.

Did you know P&O has an Option for their ship?

via CIN: Sometimes supplier announcements can have unintended consequences, like Wärtsilä Hamworthy confirming an equipment order for the P&O Cruises 141,000-ton newbuild at Fincantieri, due for delivery in 2015, along with an option for a second ship. The cruise line…

Cunard Data Breach Hits Over 1,200 booked Guests

It doesn’t appear that this was the result of a hack or malicious code, just a goof on their end. And quite the goof it was. Over 1,200 booked guests had their Name, Email and Booking Number added to a…

RUMOR: Chinese Cruise Line Orders a 100,000grt Vessel

CIN is reporting that an unnamed cruise line may have just ordered a 100,000grt newbuild set for launch in 2018. The date seems a little too far in the future in my opinion, but China has no experience building post-panamax…

Fire on German River Ship Prompts Evacuation

On Saturday, a fire broke out onboard France’s MS Gerard Schmitter. The CroisiEurope ship was in the process of tying up when the fire was first reported. The cause seems to be a cable that sparked in the ships ‘Technical…

I found the QE2 in Dubai!

I spoke to one of the directors of my company and he said they keep her under heavy guard and security won’t even allow pictures. So I found a way around it. The Burj Khalifa is the worlds tallest free…

NCL Officially Acquires the Norwegian Sky?

This may sound crazy but it turns out she was never owned by NCL. According to IHS Fairplay the owner is Ample Avenue Ltd. NCL has signed a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) to formally purchase the vessel. Ample Avenue Ltd…

Important Message from CruiseInd…

Good Day, I will be in Dubai for work during the next two weeks. I’m actually about to board the plane right now! I have zero idea if I will have time to update CruiseInd. I will however, try my…

Costa Concordia Removal Plan Announced

Costa Crociere, Italo-American consortium Titan-Micoperi, and local Italian officials announced the details of the Costa Concordia removal plan. The work will be carried out for about 12 months and will refloat the partially capsized vessel. Titan Salvage, the American salvage…

A Shoreside Power Solution?

Chris Owen from ChrisCruises: Historically, there was no way to convert the 50 Hz utility power offered on the shores of some countries the 60 Hz usable by cruise ships.  The Cochran Marine Shore Power System converts the standard voltage…

Floating Island off of California Coast

Several Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have created the startup Blueseed. They plan on building a ship and having it anchor 12 miles off of California (which is pretty deep water BTW) and having internet start up, well, start up there. The reason is…