Venetian Cruise Ship Ban Lifted

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Hopefully this concludes this saga. Italian ministers have announced that they won’t go through with the ban on cruise ships sailing into Venice. Their regional court of appeals overturned the previous ban. There’s always the possibility that a new group will voice…

Carnival Vista Announcements

This event has ended Carnival is currently holding a meeting for press and travel agents in both the UK and in New York. Here’s the highlights from the current announcements. Carnival Vista will sail in Europe in 2016. Homeported out…

MSC To Pick Up Options On Newbuilds?

This one is all but confirmed but here it goes. MSC recently released a press release (which has since been redacted) when their latest ship to enter drydock for the Renaissance stretching program. Contained in there, and saved by CruiseIndustryNews, was…

Kevin Sheehan To Exit NCL

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Kevin Sheehan will be leaving Norwegian Cruise Line. The current CEO of Prestige, Frank Del Rio, will take over. More on this story as it develops. Press Release at the bottom of this post. It was under his leadership that Mr.…