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Buzz on the floor today is after leaders from major European shipyards heavily criticized the Mitsubishi deal with AIDA. They claimed that that the pricing model of the AIDA ship is “unstable”. Corrado Antonini, Fincantieri chairman Mitsubishi has come up…
Cruise Europe celebrated its 20th anniversary last night. The commemorative event was held at the Fours Seasons Hotel in Hamburg. Officials present included the Chairman, President and founder members of Cruise Europe, an association promoting cruise travel throughout Europe. The…
Conferences for today include Cruise Port Development and Cruise Ship Operations. I don’t plan on hearing any breaking news come from them, but if there are, I’ll post. As the title says, this is the last day of the conference.…
International Shipping Partners of Miami, vessel owners, issued the below statement: On Monday, September 26, ISP was unexpectedly informed that Happy Cruises, charterers of the cruise vessels M/V GEMINI and the M/V OCEAN PEARL, would cease operation and cancel all…
Here are some highlights from the Seatrade Ricer Cruise Panel in Hamburg: Central Europe saw an increase of 51%. 228 total vessels, with a dozen more on the books. Russia’s fleet decreased to 150 from 160. They also noted that…
So far nothing new breaking here. I’ll let you know when something does.
I say Quasi since they still are pursuing operations to stay afloat (pun intended). Happy Cruises operates 3 ships on time charter from ship owners ISP of Miami. The Spanish line apparently is looking for a large, fast, cash infusion…
TUI Cruises chief executive Richard Vogel, in center signs, the deal In what surprised this journalist, TUI decided that a newbuild was in store for the growing German market. Most likely this was done as a way for parent company…
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…