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Costa Adds Second Cruise Ship Back Into Operation
The Costa Diadema is set to depart from Genoa later today, becoming the second Costa ship to return into service under a number of new health and safety protocols. The Costa Diadema’s itinerary includes calls at Italian ports and is reserved for guests resident in Italy. After Genoa, her next port...
Here Are The Cruise Ships Carnival Is Selling
Carnival Corporation said earlier this week it is accelerating its plan to dispose of older, less efficient vessels, noting that 18 ships will now leave its fleet. "In total, the 18 ships represent approximately 12 percent of pre-pause capacity and only three percent of operating income in 2019," Ca...
A More Profitable Carnival Corporation Expected To Emerge
A leaner, more profitable Carnival Corporation is likely to emerge following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Cruise Industry News’ calculations. One important aspect will be what now seems like the overdue removal of 18 existing ships from the fleet. When Carnival Corporation announced earlier...
Mapecem Marine 1000 Offers Screed Mortar for Marine Environments
MAPEI recently introduced Mapecem Marine 1000, an accelerated-cure, lightweight, shrinkage-compensated, cement-based screed mortar. A globally available product that is now produced in MAPEI’s U.S. factories and available for the North American market, Mapecem Marine 1000 is designed for leveling ...
Fred. Olsen New Ship Bolette Arrives In Rosyth
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has completed its fleet by welcoming Bolette to Rosyth, Scotland, just two weeks after taking delivery of another new ship, the Borealis. The ships are the former Amsterdam and Rotterdam from Holland America Line. The Bolette arrived at Babcock’s Rosyth Facilities on Thurs...
First Steel Cut For Second Seabourn Expedition Newbuild
Seabourn noted the cutting of the steel for the brand’s second ultra-luxury purpose-built expedition ship earlier this week in Italy. T. Mariotti Managing Director Marco Ghiglione presided over the ceremony in San Giorgo di Nogare, Italy with Seabourn President Josh Leibowitz joining virtually. ...
Noble Caledonia and Salen Go with Resco Thermal Monitoring
Noble Caledonia and Salén Ship Management are implementing Rescompanys' (Resco) Concierge Thermal Screening system to enhance the health measures at check in and onboard the company's three small expedition ships, all formerly Renaissance vessels. Using a hand-held device, this module will allow th...
CR Ocean Engineering and OBerlin Announce Partnership
CR Ocean Engineering and OBerlin Filter Company have announced a new partnership to provide an automatic, low-maintenance washwater filtration system to supplement CROE’s state-of-the-art closed loop and hybrid exhaust gas cleaning systems (i.e. scrubbers). The OBerlin Filter is an advanced cleani...
Coral Expeditions Confirms October Start for Great Barrier Reef Cruises
Coral Expeditions has confirmed a restart of operations for Oct. 14 with a series of new seven-night sailings onboard the Coral Discoverer. Operating out of Cairns with planned departures through mid-December this year, these voyages will take small groups of guests to explore the pristine outer ree...
P&O Cruises Cancels Cruises Until Early 2021
P&O Cruises today confirmed an extension to its pause in operations, with all sailings cancelled until early 2021, according to a press release. All Caribbean cruises are cancelled until the end of January 2021 and all cruises from and to Southampton are cancelled through February as well as Arcadia...
P&O Cruises Cancels Cruises Until Early 2021
P&O Cruises today confirmed an extension to its pause in operations, with all sailings cancelled until early 2021, according to a press release. All Caribbean cruises are cancelled until the end of January 2021 and all cruises from and to Southampton are cancelled through February as well as Arcadia...
Set Sail Safely Act Established by Florida Senators
Florida Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio introduced the Set Sail Safely Act, which will establish a Maritime Task Force, in coordination with a Private Sector Advisory Committee, to address the health, safety, security, and logistical changes needed to allow cruise lines and ports to resume opera...
Carnival Cruise Line Confirms Ship Exits, Other Fleet News
Carnival Cruise Line today announced the sale of Carnival Fascination and Carnival Imagination, which had previously been put on long-term lay-up status and removed from published itineraries. Both ships are expected to be scrapped The sale of Carnival Fascination, launched in 1994, and Carnival Ima...
Carnival Imagination Beached in Turkey for Scrapping
The Carnival Imagination has arrived in Alaiga, Turkey, for her demolition. The Imagination becomes the third Carnival Fantasy-class vessel to be retired following the company's pause in operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ship joins the the Carnival Fantasy, Carnival Inspiration, Pullmantu...
AIDA Accelerates Restart, Cruising from Italy In October
AIDA Cruises will expand its range of cruises this fall with new voyages visiting the highlights of Italy, starting on Oct. 17, 2020. Carnival's German brand is thus moving up its restart from November to October. The new seven-day itinerary departs from Civitavecchia near Rome and travels to Palerm...
Hurtigruten Cancels First Three Months of Antarctica Program
Hurtigruten has been forced to cancel its October, November and December Antarctica departures. "The situation is still fluid, and developments are unpredictable," said Daniel Skjeldam, CEO. "There are still major hurdles to overcome. As of now, they do not show much promise to be resolved in time t...
Peace Boat to Modernize Cruise Fleet with Newer Ship
Japan Grace, which operates the Peace Boat cruise operation, announced it has chartered a new, modern cruise ship that will replace the Ocean Dream and Zenith pairing. Starting in 2021 the Pacific World will replace both the Ocean Dream and Zenith as Peace Boat's sole vessel. It is believed the ship...
Victory Cruise Lines Announces Partnership with Cal Poly
Victory Cruise Lines (VCL) has announced its newest collaborative partnership with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). The partnership will provide Cal Poly students the opportunity to fulfill paid “Learn by Doing” internships aboard the Ocean Victory as it sails in Alaska, the c...
Right On Time: eCruise’s Integrated Health Systems
Onboarding cruise passengers quickly and efficiently has always made sense. It is absolutely vital in the post-COVID-19 age. This spring, eCruise introduced an addition to its iPad-driven Mobile Check-In application. The easy-to-use system that cut embarkation times in half was given a health questi...
Ponant Recognized as Most Environmentally-Friendly Cruise Line
Ponant has been recognized by the Nature and Biodiversity Union (NABU), one of the largest environment associations in Germany, as the most environmentally-friendly cruise line in their annual ranking, according to a statement. NABU is a non-profit organization committed to the conversation of threa...
Carnival to Further Accelerate Ship Exits; 18 Vessels to Leave
Carnival Corporation said on Tuesday it will accelerate the removal of less efficient cruise ships from its global fleet. Previously, the world's largest cruise operator said it 13 ships would exit its fleet, that number has been upped to 18, of which eight have already left the fleet. "In total, th...
Carnival Corp. Reports Q3, Provides Key Business Update
Carnival Corporation has disclosed preliminary financial information for the quarter ended August 31, 2020. Notable: U.S. GAAP net loss of $(2.9) billion for the third quarter of 2020, which includes $0.9 billion of non-cash impairment charges. Third quarter 2020 adjusted net loss of $(1.7) billion....
Carnival Corp. to Sell More Shares, Fundraising Continues
Carnival Corporation announced on Tuesday that it sell up to $1 billion worth of shares. "We have entered into an equity distribution agreement with the financial institutions named below, each a “sales agent” and, collectively the “sales agents”, relating to the offer and sale from time to ...
New Fred. Olsen Ship to Introduce New Cruises from Liverpool
Sailings for Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ second new ship Borealis have gone on sale with the inaugural program featuring a number of brand new itineraries setting sail from Liverpool in 2021. Borealis’ first cruise will be a six-night "Scottish Lochs & Isles" sailing, departing from Liverpool on A...
Abercrombie & Kent Marks 30 Years of Luxury Expedition Cruising
Abercrombie & Kent (A&K) is celebrating 30 years of expedition cruising in 2021. Today A&K offers 12 voyages, including polar and cultural cruises, across six continents. To commemorate the anniversary, A&K founder Geoffrey Kent will host a brand-new expedition through The Northeast Passage: Across ...
Seabourn Announces 2022 World Cruise
Seabourn has announced its 2022 world cruise, a 145-day voyage on the Seabourn Sojourn, visiting 72 destinations and ports in 28 countries on five continents, according to a press release. The Seabourn Sojourn will depart Los Angeles on January 11, 2022, and travel westbound, visiting Hawaii, the is...
Blocks Arrive in Helsinki for First New Swan Hellenic Expedition Ship
Helsinki Shipyard is quickly progressing through the building stages for the first of two new expedition newbuilds for Swan Hallenic. On Saturday the shipyard loaded the first blocks of the vessel in Klaipeda, On Monday, the blocks arrived in Helsinki. Swan Hellenic is building two state-of-the-art ...
British Virgin Islands to Accept Technical Calls, Warm Lay Ups
The BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) has announced that permission has been granted for the acceptance of technical calls and warm layups at its seaports for cruise ships. The goverment has agreed on conditions to allow cruise ships to carry out short-term berthing at the BVI Ports Authority’s Cruise P...
Hurtigruten Supporting Travel Advisors With New Offer
Hurtigruten has announced a special offer for all travel advisors to share with their clients. Between September 10 and October 31, 2020, select 2021 Alaska itineraries and 2021 and 2022 Expedition Norway and Antarctica itineraries, will be offered at a buy one, get one at 50 percent dea; off using ...
MSC Expands Itinerary for October Restart of Magnifica
MSC Cruises today announced that its second ship to return, the MSC Magnifica, will set sail on October 19, 2020 with a series of seven cruises including an eight-night Christmas cruise departing on December 18 from Genoa, Italy. Simultaneously, the company also extended MSC Grandiosa’s current sa...
When Norwegian Cruise Line Ships Could Start Sailing Again
Norwegian Cruise Line could cruising again with some ships in North America later this year, according to port schedules, previously announced deployments and Norwegian's website, which lists cruises as soon as November 2020. Other vessels may not start service until 2021. A look at the expected fir...
New Royal Caribbean Ship Gets Updated Livery with Huge Name
The Odyssey of the Seas will debut an updated hull livery for Royal Caribbean International when she debuts into service next April. The company has elected to debut a new look with a large name adorned on the hull of the Quantum-Ultra class vessel, with the O alone measuring 11.2 meters in height a...
Five Holland America Ships to Sail in Europe in 2021
Five Holland America Line ships are set to sail in Europe in 2021. The ships include the new Rotterdam, which is slated to debut at the height of the summer Europe season. Also included are the Nieuw Statendam, Westerdam and Zuiderdam, putting two Pinnacle Class ships in the region. The Zaandam head...
Princess Reveals 2022 World Cruise Onboard Coral Princess
Princess Cruises announced today its 15th annual Australia-based World Cruise, sailing roundtrip from three homeports – Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland. The 107-day circumnavigation of the globe features 43 destinations in 27 countries on six continents. The Coral Princess sets sail, with 2,000 gues...
Norwegian Cruise CEO: ‘It Will Be Safe to Cruise from America’
“The cruise industry is close to devastation. The market capitalization of the three public companies has dropped by nearly $50 billion,” said Frank Del Rio, CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, speaking during a meeting of the Miami-Dade Country Tourism and the Ports Committee on Thursday mor...
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