MSC To Homeport The MSC Opera in Havanna

via Flickr user Stephen Colebourne

from MSC: MSC Cruises, the world’s largest privately-owned global cruise line and the market leader in the Mediterranean and South America, announced today that, starting in December 2015, its 2,120-guestMSC Opera will homeport in Havana for the winter 2015-16 season to offer…

Celestyal Crystal Collides With STI Pimlico

The Celestyal Crystal (ex-Louis Cristal, Silja Opera, SuparStar Taurus, Leeward, Sally Albatross) collided with the product tanker STI Pimlico in the Dardanelles strait in Turkey early Saturday morning. Fortunately there are no injuries to any passengers or crew on the Celestyal…

Carnival Vista Launched

Carnival Vista has just been floated out in Monfalcone, Italy. She will shift over to the outfitting dock to finish her interiors. Her delivery is still planned for Spring 2016. The godmothers of the event were Heidi and Kye Heald.…

Virgin Cruises Details

There's the helicopter. @virgincruises #letsmakewaves pic.twitter.com/EOz0T4DDJH — Cruise Critic (@CruiseCritic) June 23, 2015 Virgin Cruises held a press conference in Miami today to unveil the first details about their ambitious plans to shake up the cruise industry. Virgin Cruises will…

[Analysis] Carnival Creates fathom.

fathom travel

Background Last week, Carnival Corporation & plc launched their 10th brand, fathom (the ‘f’ is lowercase). They will transfer the 2001-built, 30,277gt Adonia (ex-R Eight, Minerva II, Royal Princess) from P&O Cruises to this new brand. The concept behind fathom…