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A new line has formed in Iceland called ProCruises. They’ll sail and operate one small expedition ship around Iceland, Greenland, and northern Europe. The 224-pax, 8,282gt Ocean Diamond (ex-Song of Flower, Le Diamant). You can check out the website here.…
Costa Cruises have just taken over their newest ship the 132500gt Costa Diadema. Based on the Carnival Dream, the ship will be christened on Nov. 7 in Genoa. The ship will depart the shipyard in Marghera on Oct. 30 and…
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today reported third quarter results and provided a preliminary outlook for 2015. Net Yields and Net Cruise Costs as well as Adjusted Net Income all performed about as expected for the quarter generating Adjusted Net Income…
Carnival Cruise Lines’ newest ship, the 3,954-passenger Carnival Vista, recently celebrated another construction milestone. Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy laid the fist block of the 133,500-ton vessel. She is still on track to debut in spring 2016. The 25th vessel…
Germany’s TUI Cruises and Meyer Turku (ex-STX Finland) recently celebrated the floatout ceremony of their newest ship, Mein Schiff 4.
via NCL: NCL announced that hospitality veteran Drew Madsen has joined as president and chief operating officer of Norwegian Cruise Line. Madsen brings a strong track record of success to Norwegian with more than 30 years of leadership experience in…
Carnival Corp. signed an MOU with China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). The purpose of the understanding is to explore the possibility of a joint venture between the two firms and to explore the possibility of accelerating the development and growth of…
The U.K.’s P&O Cruises have unveiled the Union Jack livery that will adorn their newest flagship. When the Britannia’s construction is complete, she will be formally christened in Southampton in March 2015.
Oasis has sailed from her drydock and is now berthed in Rotterdam. These two webcams come courtesy of virtualvisit.nl. Over on CruiseCritic, someone has released the total changes. I have yet to cross check them with the deckplans as they…
Princess Cruises have announced that they intend to sell their smallest ship the Ocean Princess. For now it seems her sister ship Pacific Princess will stay in the fleet. P&O Crusies’ Adonia is also rumored to be for sale as…