Cruise news (Royal Caribbean-tagged)
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Royal Caribbean canceled Ovation OTS ship's 2021-2022 Australian season from Sydney
RCI-Royal Caribbean canceled Ovation of the Seas ship's planned 2021-2022 Australian season based on homeporting in Sydney NSW. The reason is the...
October 19, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas is the first cruise ship to set sail from Port Tampa Bay
This Saturday, October 16, Port Tampa Bay (Florida) will welcome its first cruisers. This has not happened since the CDC issued its no-sale order in...
October 15, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas is the first ship to restart cruising from Port Tampa Bay
Port Tampa Bay and RCI-Royal Caribbean will celebrate the return of cruising from Tampa Florida after an 18+ months halt due to the COVID crisis...
October 9, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean Group improves guest boarding experience via Smart Engines’ ID scanning technology
Smart Engines technology helped RCG-Royal Caribbean Group (world's second-largest cruise shipowner / after Carnival Corporation) streamline the...
October 8, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean partners with TraceSafe, rolls out mandatory contact tracing wearable
Tracesafe Inc - the global leader in location-aware IoT (Internet of Things) platforms for large-scale industrial and enterprise operations...
October 4, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean to improve USVI's ports
RCG-Royal Caribbean Group announced it had reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the USVI/ Virgin Islands. The deal is expected to...
September 30, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean's ship Spectrum of the Seas to sail from Singapore beginning October 21, 2022
RCI-Royal Caribbean International announced that Spectrum of the Seas would sail a series of 3- to 9-night roundtrip itineraries from homeport...
September 29, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean Group to build and operate new cruise terminal in Port Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna Port Authority has been awarded the tender for the building of a new cruise ship terminal and the concession of its cruise operations in...
September 23, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Wonder of the Seas with inaugural season in Caribbean & Mediterranean instead of China
RCI-Royal Caribbean announced that the largest cruise ship in the world, Wonder of the Seas, will debut in the United States and Europe. The highly...
September 16, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas returns to service from New York (Cape Liberty Bayonne NJ)
Following a 17-month pause, RCI-Royal Caribbean's cruise liner Oasis of the Seas returned to service. The first post-COVID commercial voyage...
September 6, 2021 - Accidents
COVID-positive vaccinated passenger medevaced from Royal Caribbean’s ship Harmony of the Seas
A COVID-positive elderly passenger was medevaced from RCI-Royal Caribbean's ship Harmony of the Seas, which docked at Port La Spezia Italy at 3...
September 5, 2021 - Accidents
48 firefighters extinguish a fire on Royal Caribbean's cruise ship Wonder of the Seas
A fire broke out around 11:15 PM (Paris time/UTC 1:15 AM), on Saturday, August 28, aboard RCI-Royal Caribbean's ship Wonder of the Seas and...
August 30, 2021 - Cruise Industry
VIDEO: Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas (world's ever-largest cruise ship) completes sea trials
RCI-Royal Caribbean's newest liner Wonder of the Seas (world's ever-largest cruise ship) returned to St-Nazaire France - at Chantiers de l...
August 30, 2021 - Cruise Industry
DCL-Disney Cruise Line requires passengers sailing to Bahamas get COVID vaccine
DCL-Disney Cruise Line will start requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for passengers from the USA boarding ships to The Bahamas in September, the...
August 26, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Cruise ships return to Manhattan (NYC New York) in late September
Cruise liners are expected to restart in Manhattan, known regionally as the City (the most densely populated of the 5 boroughs of New York City) in...
August 24, 2021