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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…
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 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.…
Carnival Corp. announced non-GAAP net income of $193 million, or $0.25 diluted EPS for the second quarter of 2015 compared to non-GAAP net income for the second quarter of 2014 of $73 million, or $0.09 diluted EPS. For the second…
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…
The latest in Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis class vessels has taken to the water. Harmony of the Seas was floated out of her dry dock at STX Yards France and will now be fitted out to complete her interiors. She is…
A new cruise line we just featured, Haimark Lines, has just had an incident onboard their only, Saint Laurent. Last night while maneuvering into a lock on the Saint Lawrence Seaway, the 274 passenger ship struck the lock and damaged…
We finally have details of Carnival’s 9 ship order. LNG is always thought of as the future so its nice to see it’s finally here. It will be exciting if theses are a radically new design. Because of the way…
The popular cruises to nowhere concept will be no more. At least for departures out of the US that is. A cruise to nowhere is when a ship leaves a port, spends one or two days at sea, then goes back…
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…