UPDATE: Looks like there was a bit of a ‘misunderstanding’: via Cruise Currents: The original press release made by the Port of Tampa stated that AIDA Cruises would begin home porting two ships in Tampa beginning in 2014 through 2016. AIDA…
Aida has named their 2015 newbuild: AIDAprima. Set to be the third large passenger ship out of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan, the 125,000grt ship will make her inaugural voyage on March 22, 2015. She will sail from Tokyo to…
Part of what makes fueling a ship with LNG so difficult is the supply of bunkers(fuel). Every port where they need to take on bunkers must have an adequate supply and special equipment for discharging it into the intended vessel.…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced that TGE Marine Gas Engineering will design two LNG fuel systems for the AIDA newbuilds coming out of Japan. When delivered in 2015 and 2016 they will be the world only cruise ships powered by LNG.…
The above photo appears to be a legitimate rendering of what AIDA’s upcoming newbuild will look like. Currently under construction at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the 125,000 grt vessel will debut in 2015. The most striking feature, if accurate, is the…
Cruise Business Online is reporting an interesting tidbit on the two AIDA ships being build in Japan. AIDA is creating a “patio” area for guests booked in a new category called Panorama cabins. Guests will have access to their own…
sistership AIDAsol AIDAstella will be the name of Germany’s AIDA Cruises newest ship when she launches in 2013. I have updated CruiseInd’s Newbuild Database
Buzz on the floor today is after leaders from major European shipyards heavily criticized the Mitsubishi deal with AIDA. They claimed that that the pricing model of the AIDA ship is “unstable”. Corrado Antonini, Fincantieri chairman Mitsubishi has come up…
TUI Cruises chief executive Richard Vogel, in center signs, the deal In what surprised this journalist, TUI decided that a newbuild was in store for the growing German market. Most likely this was done as a way for parent company…
German club line AIDA has christened their newest ship in Germany. Like any AIDA christening it was quite the spectacle with all the fireworks and laser light show. The Godmother was Bettina Zwickler who was the winner of an online…