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click for larger Press release from STX: STX Finland Oy and TUI Cruises have today signed a contract for the design and construction of a 97,000 GT cruise vessel. The sophisticated and highly innovative cruise vessel is scheduled to be…
Taking Place in Hamburg, Germany from September 27-29, the Seatrade Europe conference brings together high level executives from cruise lines, vendors, and shipyard officials. What to expect: Perhaps we will see if anything will come out of the Mysterious TUI…
Heres the laid up ship anchored in Singapore. Notice the painted over logo on the funnel: click for larger
The first steel has been cut on the worlds worst named ship, The Norwegian Breakaway.
From CIN: Sources also report that TUI is close to ordering ships from STX Finland. While the shipyard was not immediately prepared to comment, it would be a stretch for TUI to commit funds to a newbuilding, considering TUI…
Play with the dates and speed don the left and don’t forget to press play. Pretty cool they did time-lapse.
That’s what the media would want you to think: Norway: Cruise ship in danger of tilting over Norway: Cruise ship listing, may tilt over (CBS News) The sort answer is no. I mean, have we not learned anything from…
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Here’s some raw footage from a Russian news source showing the early parts of the fire. Notice the passengers still onboard and how quickly turing the vessel so that the the smoke blows away. Pretty scary stuff.
Shes listing due to the amount of water sprayed into her. Making her unstable. from Svein Ove Ekornesvag
UPDATE:NRK has more photos. I say explosion in quotes since that’s what is being reported, but I highly doubt that’s what happened. A fire in the engine room killed two crew members and sent nine other crew to the…
Study: Pollution from Ships Plummets when Vessels Shift to Low-Sulfur Fuels (Photo Credit: Flickr user turgidson via Creative Commons license)
So far here are the changes. RCI Oasis of the Seas will sail a modified itinerary. The ship will now call on Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, on Tuesday, Philipsburg, St. Maarten, on Wednesday and Nassau, Bahamas, on Friday. The ship…
In what is my most memorable photo from that timeframe, the SS Norway sails on what was her supposed last transatlantic from New York. The photo above was taken in the afternoon on September 5, 2001. Many say that she…
“Anti-cruise” pundit Jim Walker over at Cruise Law has reports that yet another group has filed a suite against RCI for fraud stemming from RCI’s admission of an accounting error. While this certainly wont turn into a scandal or anything…
The beginning looks like a video game but it’s the infrared camera the RAF are using. Pretty damn cool!
The highly isolated country of North Korea is having their first go at the Cruise industry. The 9,000 grt former cargo ship, Mangyongbong took 130 passengers from the northern port of Rajin to the southern port of Mount Kumgang near…
From RCI Blog: Port Canaveral, Florida is celebrating the start of construction of a new cruise terminal with a scheduled completion date of July 2012. The new terminal should be large enough to handle any cruise ship in the world,…
While everyone is batten-down in preparation for the Hurricane, I will be taking this time to update my servers. If anything crazy happens I’ll tweet it. Make sure to follow me: twitter.com/cruiseind -Greg
As Hurricane Irene leaves the very flooded Bahamas and sets her sights on the Atlantic coastline, here are the latest updates; Carnival CARNIVAL GLORY has reversed the order of our ports of call. We will now visit Halifax on Monday…
(Photo Credit: Flickr user GoboNdc via Creative Commons license) From FAIRPLAY24 ROYAL Caribbean’s two largest owners – Norway’s Wilhelmsen family and America’s Pritzker family – have dissolved their shareholders agreement, the cruise giant confirmed. The Wilhelmsen family, through A…
THURSDAY: No new alterations today. It looks like weekend turnarounds in New York may be in jeopardy. __________________________________________________________________________ Carnival Carnival Pride, will sail Port Canaveral, Tuesday; Freeport, Wednesday. Carnival Triumph, will sail a western instead of Eastern with stops in…
Louis Cruises have announced they will part with the Med and send one ship over to the Caribbean this winter. Not only that, but she will sail to the embargoed Cuba. One would think that it would be the recently…
See if you can make her out in the above photo. Great American Steamboat Company has agreed to purchased the American Queen steamboat. Plans are to have her sailing again starting April of 2012. Voyages will leave out…
What do you think? This will all take place at an upcoming drydock.