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Following Carnival’s Spirit and Celebrity’s Solstice, Royal Caribbean announced that they will move their former flagship, Voyager of the Seas, to Asia starting in June of 2012. She’ll base out of Shanghai, China and sail everything from 4 to 10…
Almost echoing the recent incident with the Costa Deliziosa in Norway, P&O’s Oriana docked in Southampton and revealed her little scrape. The dent occurred as the ship hit the quarryside in Kristiansand, Norway. She still is seaworthy and any impact…
Yesterday a fuel tank exploded int he port of Gibraltar, Spain. Right next to the tank, the Independence of the Seas. There were 12 passengers that were reported to have had minor injuries. The pictures are pretty spectacular. The Independence…
UPDATE: She will be built at Fincanteri in Italy. Her hull will be based on the new Princess newbuild. People have commented that she looks like the Solstice class, but there is nothing similar other than the twin funnels. She’ll…
Seabourn took delivery of the new 450-guest Seabourn Quest today at the T. Mariotti shipyard in Genoa, Italy. The intimate, all-suite ship is the third vessel constructed by Mariotti for Seabourn’s fleet, completing a three-year expansion that increased the ultra-luxury…
The huge rumor going around the industry is that Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is negotiating with an unnamed cruise line for 2 100,000grt vessels. CIN reported today that the negotiations are well underway and could be wrapped up in during…
The Costa Cruises vessel Costa Deliziosa, came unmoored while docked in Bergen, Norway over the weekend. From the photos, nothing too serious and no damage was reported from the vessel. The same can’t be said of the quarryside where a…
Bon Voyage Bon Voyage, a tranquil lounge located on Deck 3, Midship aboard the Disney Fantasy, is a cozy bar where families can enjoy a refreshing beverage or snack throughout the day. Cove Café Cove Café, an adults-only lounge located…
That’s what Windstar Cruises was just sold for. The luxury sailing line had gone bankrupt and was just purchased at an auction. The winner was TAC Cruise LLC, an affiliate of Xanterra Holding Corporation. Andrew N. Todd, CEO of Xanterra…
The 441 foot Discovery Sun, operated by Discovery Cruise Line, will sail her last trip on September 6th. Originally last Thursday, it was reported that she would be heading to drydock on the 7th for an extensive refurbishment. Just yesterday,…
Westerdam in 2008 The USCG just issued a statement that they are investigation and incident that recently took place in Alaska. The United States Coast Guard is investigating an allision between the 935-foot cruise ship Westerdam and ice in the…
click photo for high res And thats how you remove the “shopping cart handle” from a cruise ship. Although for some reason i always found it to be attractive. And below is what she looks like sailing now.
NCL also released their Q1 results. Unlike rival RCI, NCL’s were mostly positive except that it lost money. Although it is still an improvement. Highlights: Revenue increased to $368.0 million EBITDA increased to $81.9 million BUT they lost $10 million…
Royal Caribbean International announced their first Quarter results and they were pretty positive even though price for fuel has been steadily increasing. Highlights Revenues of $1.7 billion Net income $91.6 million See the full presser after the break:
UPDATE CIN has an update on the status of the rumor. Well if true it won’t be for Royal Caribbean. CIN is reporting that the 74,000grt vessel currently sailing out of Miami could be the ship that Korean operator All…
You be the judge…. source: flickr
Royal Caribbean went public with their 2012-13 Caribbean cruises. Heres the breakdown: Oasis of the Seas will sail alternating 7 night Eastern and Western Caribbean r/t from Port Everglades (Fort Laderdale) Allure of the Seas will sail alternating 7 night…
On Easter Sunday, the Italian port of Savona saw 4 port calls from Costa Ships. Savona is sort of like a Red Hook, NY or Cape Liberty, NJ in that one line built it up and pretty much only Costa…
The ex-NCL vessel has been floating around the Greek Isles in a semi-laid-up state. Recently she called at Port Said, Egypt and oddly enough she made the transit through the Suez canal and is about to enter the Indian Ocean.…
Discovery has a sketch of what the future Olympic Venues could look like:
American Cruise Lines has gone public with an ambitious plan to sail 13 Alaskan routes. Commencing summer 2012, the yet to be announced ship will sail from Seattle to Juneau, and then round trip Juneau voyages, before sailing back to…
Massachusetts’ most unlikely and newest cruise port has seen a surprising boom in vessel calls. In 2011 there will be 23 calls mostly comming from American Cruise Line and Holland America. The Canada & New England routes havent seen a…
Royal Caribbean just announced that the Navigator of the Seas will reposition to the caribbean for the winter 2011-12 season. Originally she was supposed to stay in Europe yearound but plans have changed. Instead she will reposition to Port Everglades…
The Mexican cruise ship, Ocean Star Pacific, suffered a Generator fire near the Mexican port of Huatulco. All 800 pax and crew were successfully evacuated using the ports tenders. She was 6 miles off shore. Occuring this morning, the fire…
The Port of Red Hook Brooklyn has now joined Port Everglades, Alaska, and Los Angeles in allowing ships to plug into shore side power. Princess and Cunard both use the new pier in the “hipster” borough of New York. My…