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New Port Canaveral Terminal Designed to Handle Oasis-class

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,…

CruiseInd Update

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

[FRIDAY] Hurricane Irene update

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…

Royal Caribbean Dissolves Two Major Stockholders

  (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…

[UPDATE:THURSDAY] CruiseInd Hurricane Center: Hurricane Irene

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 Cruise Line Announces Caribbean + Cuba

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…

American Queen Sold and given new life

  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…

Finance Friday: NCL Q2 2011 Report

Norwegian Cruise Line reported results for the three months ended June 30, 2011. Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011 increased 29.0% to $123.5 million from $95.7 million in the same period of 2010 on improved revenue…

CruiseInd Hurricane Center: Tropical Storm Emily

Here are the latest itinerary alterations as a result of current TS Emily: Carnival Miracle out of NYC will call San Juan, St. Thomas and Grand Turk instead of Grand Turk, Half Moon Cay and Nassau. Carnival Sensation out of…

Louis Majesty Taken Out of Service

The Louis Majesty of Louis Cruises will be taken out of service according to CIN. Louis’s Communication director stated: “The decision not to deploy the Majesty out of Genoa and Marseilles this coming winter is in essence the second step…

BREAKING: Finance Friday: RCL’s Financial Blunder Proves Costly

When Royal Caribbean International (NYSE:RCL) announced their 2Q 2011 Earnings they shocked everyone by admitting that their erred in their accounting. Upon hearing this, the stock plunged yesterday quite a lot. It should pick up today assuming it’s a good…

Things confiscated while boarding a ship

Capt. Greybeard posted the following picture on his blog. It show the various objects that security have confiscated from passengers in Southampton. source: Mirror.co.uk blog

American Cruise Line Launches Queen of the Mississippi

American Cruise Lines, the leader in small ship cruising, announced today the launching of the Queen of the Mississippi, a magnificent brand new sternwheeler built for the Mississippi.  At Chesapeake Shipbuilding in Maryland on Sunday, July 17, the launching went…

NCL Introduces the Haven

NCL announced that their signature Courtyards, will be renamed The Haven. Currently the area is a feature onboard the Epic, leading to her distinct profile, and the sisters Peal This secluded area will make an appearance on the two new…

Finance Friday: NCL to Go Public (Stock Market)

UPDATE WEDNESDAY: Turns out NCL will wait for better Market Conditions to launch their IPO acc’d to CIN. UPDATE SATURDAY:CruiseIndustryNews chimed in with this bit of info. NCL will be traded on the NASDAQ under ticker NCLH   NCL today…

American Cruise Lines Obtains Permit for Glacier bay

American Cruise Lines had announced they were expanding to Alaska back in April. This week, then further announced that they have been granted the appropriate permits to sail into scenic Glacier Bay, Alaska. Not many other lines are allowed to…

RCI Doesn’t Release Any Project Sunshine Details

In a recent post on the Chariman’s Blog, RCI CEO Richard Fain posted the following non-details regarding Project Sunshine: A new ship project like Project Sunshine is a remarkable phenomenon. The physical ship won’t be ours until well over three…

STX Revokes Libyan Cruise Ship Contract

Back in December I reported that the Libyan Government ordered the 139,000grt ship, m/v Phoenicia. It was shocking at the time but given how much $$$$ the Libyan government had from its oil exports {the state run shipping line sails…

NCL Project Breakaway Announcement

Ill update as the info comes in. Enjoy the latest render: (Looks like this is all that we’re gonna get this time) Will have Single cabins Booking opens in October Each of the 144,017 gross ton vessels will have approximately…

BREAKING: NCL CEO Acknowledges Epic’s Controversial Design

In an interview with uber-cruise-site Cruise Critic, NCL CEO Kevin Sheehan stated: We thought [the courtyard complex] through in the Project Breakaway planning, and so it’ll be more integrated into the structure this time around. What must have happened [on…

Project Breakaway

…will be the name of NCL’s new builds. More details can be expected tomorrow when they will be revealed by NCL.

Live Video from Hurtigruten Ship Nordnorge

Ok so this is awesome and I’ve been addicted to this since I just discovered it. The Norwegian Coastal line Hurtigruten will be broadcasting live video from the MS Nordnorge as she sails north up the cast of Norway. She…