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Ocean Victory Keel Laid in China
Victory Cruise Lines announced a successful Keel Laying Ceremony for its highly anticipated MV Ocean Victory. Operated by American Queen Steamboat...
September 19, 2019
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Cunard Line Unveils 2021 Itineraries
Cunard Line announced its cruise program for the remainder of 2021, which includes an extended season in Japan and new itineraries in Iceland, North...
September 19, 2019
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VIDEO: Pandaw Sails the Ganges
Pandaw Cruises company's customers enjoyed the inaugural cruise of RV Kindat Pandaw from Kolkata India and up the Hooghly River (a Lower Ganges River...
September 19, 2019
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Holland America's Club Orange Program to Feature New Amenities
Holland America's new Club Orange premium amenities program is expected to be available on all ships of the company by October 2019. Currently on 9...
September 19, 2019
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Costa Luminosa to Sail in South America Winter 2020-2021
Costa Cruises announced that its Costa Luminosa will sail in South America during the winter of 2020-2021. From November 2020 through April 2021 the...
September 18, 2019
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Viking's Seventh Ocean Ship to Join Early 2021
Viking Cruises announced that its 7th ocean ship, Viking Venus, is due to join the fleet in early-2021. The 930-passenger newbuild (currently under...
September 18, 2019
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Sydney Moves Closer to a Third Cruise Terminal
Following years of debate over where the port of Sydney might have its 3rd cruise ship terminal, the Government of NSW announced it wants to work...
September 18, 2019
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Enchanted Princess Officially Meets the Ocean
Princess Cruises celebrated a major construction milestone with the recent float out of its Enchanted Princess ship at the building-dock at...
September 18, 2019
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Cruise Lines Change Itineraries Due to Hurricane Humberto
Another major storm of 2019’s hurricane season is due to impact Bermuda. Hurricane Humberto is forecasted to reach Bermuda Island on Wednesday...
September 17, 2019
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NCL Testing New Pay-for-Perks Program
NCL-Norwegian Cruise Line is currently testing a new program that allows new customers to buy the perks generally associated with NCL's loyalty...
September 17, 2019
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Holland America Line Returns to Tampa Bay in 2020
HAL-Holland America Line dropped Tampa FL as a homeport in spring 2018. According to Erik Elvejord (company's director of public relations), HAL was...
September 17, 2019
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Sri Lanka Resumes Ferry Service with India
Sri Lanka announced it is keen to resume ferry service with India. Sudarshana Gunawardana (Prime Minister's Office) revealed that the matter had...
September 17, 2019
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VIDEO: Hamburg Cruise Days 2019
Over 0,5 million tourists visited over the weekend Germany for the 7th Hamburg Cruise Days. With a record number of 12 participating cruise...
September 17, 2019
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Hurtigruten to Add New eSled Snowmobiles
Hurtigruten’s land-based adventure travel company Hurtigruten Svalbard announced a new partnership with the Finnish company Aurora Powertrains...
September 16, 2019
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First Quantum Ultra Class Ship to Debut in North America
Royal Caribbean will dial up its adventures in South Florida in fall next year with the debut of Odyssey of the Seas which is expected to become the...
September 16, 2019
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MSC Armonia to Be Homeported in Tampa
MSC Cruises revealed it will continue to expand its presence in North America via the introduction of Tampa Florida as a new homeport for the company...
September 16, 2019
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Mustai Karim Launched in Nizhny Novgorod
On September 11, 2019, Russia's largest cruise company Vodohod launched its new river and sea-going ship of the PV300-design - MS Mustai Karim...
September 16, 2019
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Grand Bahama Shipyard Resumes Operations
On September 12, Grand Bahama Shipyard announced it had officially resumed operations and welcomed back the first commercial vessel, the 57,062 GT...
September 15, 2019
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Shanghai to Build World's 3rd Largest Cruise Port
Shanghai unveiled plans to develop its Wusongkou Cruise Port into the third-largest in the world in terms of passenger trips and create an industrial...
September 15, 2019
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Edinburgh to Host Prestigious European Cruise Event
Edinburgh will host a prestigious European cruise event for the first time. Capital Cruising, part of Forth Ports, announced it had won a bid to host...
September 15, 2019
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Grand Celebration's Sailings Cancelled Ahead of Another Humanitarian Cruise
Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line cancelled its September 13, 15, 17 and 19 voyages aboard Grand Celebration due to another post-Hurricane Dorian...
September 15, 2019
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Viking Cruises Announces Partnership for the Release of Downton Abbey
Viking Cruises announced it had partnered with Carnival Films, Focus Features, and Universal Pictures for the release of the new full-length film...
September 14, 2019
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Three Cruise Passengers Arrested in Miami for Credit Card Fraud
Three cruise passengers were arrested in Miami FL on Monday, September 9, for credit card fraud. The men indulged in a shopping spree for over...
September 14, 2019
Accidents
Carnival Corporation Brands Resume Sailings to The Bahamas
Carnival Corporation (world's largest cruise ship owner) announced that its cruise brands are returning to The Bahamas and resuming their regularly...
September 14, 2019
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Long Term Parking For Cruises Out of Seattle
There are few places on Earth that are as beautiful as the Pacific North West and all it has to offer, and if you and your family have decided...
September 13, 2019
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Holland America Line Fined $17K
Holland America will pay the state of Alaska a US$17,000 fine a year after one of its ships holding tanks leaked greywater into Glacier Bay. On...
September 13, 2019
Accidents
Construction on Second Global Class Ship Commences at MV Werften
Construction on Dream Cruises’ 2nd Global Class ship commenced at MV Werften in Warnemunde-Rostock on Tuesday, September 10, almost a year...
September 13, 2019
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Hurtigruten’s Roald Amundsen Completes Northwest Passage Crossing
This week, Hurtigruten’s expedition cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen became the first battery-hybrid powered vessel to ever traverse the Northwest...
September 13, 2019
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Passenger Medevaced from MS Oosterdam
A 71-year-old passenger was medevaced 13 miles to safety by the United States Coast Guard this week after suffering from stroke symptoms aboard a...
September 13, 2019
Accidents
Norwegian Encore Godmother Revealed
Norwegian Cruise Line announced on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" that GRAMMY Award-winning artist Kelly Clarkson will serve as the godmother to the line...
September 12, 2019
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