Cruise news (accident-tagged)
- Accidents
TUI UK cancels Marella Discovery 2 cruise ship’s upcoming Caribbean voyage due to technical issue
Marella Cruises' parent company TUI UK canceled Marella Discovery 2 ship’s upcoming voyage due to a technical issue in the catering facilities...
January 31, 2023 - Accidents
Auckland NZ ferry services disrupted due to mooring line failure on HAL's ship ms Noordam
Auckland ferry services were disrupted for an hour on Friday, January 27th, after a mooring line problem on the HAL-Holland America's cruise ship ms...
January 28, 2023 - Accidents
Seabourn cancels 3 cruises aboard its newest ship Venture due to emergency drydocking
The premium travel company Seabourn canceled 5 sailings of its newest ship Seabourn Venture which will be forced into unscheduled drydock for repairs...
January 27, 2023 - Accidents
57-year-old passenger medevaced from Royal Caribbean’s ship Allure OTS
A 57-year-old woman is in a hospital after the U.S. Coast Guard rescued her by flight from an RCI-Royal Caribbean cruise ship ~50 miles off Galveston...
January 26, 2023 - Accidents
Oceania's Regatta and Regent's Seven Seas Explorer ships cancel scheduled calls to Port Burnie...
TasPorts announced that two international cruise ships scheduled to call at Port Burnie (Tasmania Australia) last week had bypassed/canceled their...
January 23, 2023 - Accidents
New MSC cruise ship Seascape suffers engine problems in the Caribbean
One of the main engines of MSC Seascape, which was officially christened in New York in December 2022, failed last week and only a reduced cruising...
January 23, 2023 - Accidents
Dover-Calais ferry services suspended due to strike in France
Ferry services to/from Calais (France) were suspended due to a national strike in France. P&O Ferries said it had produced an optimized sailing...
January 20, 2023 - Accidents
NCL cancels Norwegian Joy ship's cruises (Jan 6-Feb 10, 2024) due to drydocking/refurbishment
All sailings onboard NCL-Norwegian Cruise Line's ship Norwegian Joy have been canceled between January 6th and February 10th, 2024, with passengers...
January 19, 2023 - Accidents
Astoria Grande ship (fka AIDAcara) collides with breakwater at port Amasra (Turkey)
Passenger ship Astoria Grande (fka AIDAcara) collided with a breakwater at ~9 am local time (~6 am UTC) on Wednesday, January 18th, while trying to...
January 18, 2023 - Accidents
MV Ganga Vilas gets stuck in Bihar's Chhapra on 3rd day of the world's longest luxury river cruise?
The world's longest luxury river cruise aboard the boat MV Ganga Vilas which on Friday, January 13th, commenced a 3200 km maiden voyage, was...
January 17, 2023 - Accidents
MSC Meraviglia encounters boat in distress and rescues 24 migrants at sea
An MSC Cruises ship bound for Port Canaveral (Orlando, Florida) encountered a boat in distress on Saturday, January 14th and rescued all 24 occupants...
January 17, 2023 - Accidents
Port Timaru (New Zealand) to host another unexpected cruise ship due to NZ's biofouling laws
The second visit of Seabourn' ship Seabourn Odyssey to Timaru (New Zealand) on Monday, January 16th, could be followed by a larger cruise ship call...
January 16, 2023 - Accidents
Royal Caribbean's ship Liberty OTS rescues 17 Cuban migrants on makeshift boat
RCI-Royal Caribbean's cruise ship Liberty of the Seas rescued 17 Cuban migrants after they were spotted on a small makeshift boat on Saturday...
January 16, 2023 - Accidents
~200 evacuated after fire ignites on GNV La Superba ferry in Palermo (Italy)
GNV La Superba ferry was badly damaged after a fire on Saturday, January 14th. The damage on the vessel of the Italian shipowner Grandi Navi Veloci...
January 16, 2023 - Accidents
5th cruise ship denied entry to New Zealand due to strict biofouling laws
Regatta (Oceania) became the 5th cruise ship to cancel port calls in New Zealand because of strict biosecurity laws. So far the biofouling laws in...
January 12, 2023