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This unique, one-of-a-kind ship can trace its origin back to 1978 and even to an entirely different ship called the Viking Saga. When Viking Saga was ordered, along with a sistership from the Finnish shipyard Wärtsilä in Perno, Finland, they…
Louis Cruises have released the following statement following our news that their 15,179grt Cristal was sold: while we are continuously approached by various parties interested in purchasing vessels, these approaches do not of course, constitute a sale.
Cruise Business Online is reporting that Johnny Sid is “close” to acquiring the 26,000grt Louis Cruise Lines ship, Cristal. Johnny plans on operating the ship back in its original home, the Baltic. The ship first sailed the Baltic when she was rebuilt our of…
More details are emerging surrounding the proposed Cristal sailing to Cuba for winter 2011 thanks to CIN. Apparently it wasn’t going to be Louis operating these cruises. The Deal was Louis was to charter the vessel on a time charter…
Louis Cruises have announced they will part with the Med and send one ship over to the Caribbean this winter. Not only that, but she will sail to the embargoed Cuba. One would think that it would be the recently…