Cruise news (technology-tagged)
- Cruise Industry
MSC World Europa ship to offer innovative entertainment in high-tech venues
The 6780-passenger ship MSC World Europa (the first of MSC Cruises’ WORLD-class series) will boast a multi-functional venue, 5 new...
September 21, 2022 - Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America boasts positive results of industry's first long-term biofuel test on MS...
HAL-Holland America completed the industry's first multiweek test of biofuels onboard ms Volendam at Port Rotterdam (Netherlands). The 20-day test...
September 20, 2022 - Cruise Industry
Port Barcelona (Spain) speeds up the supply of clean energy to cruise ships
Port Barcelona, Barcelona Cruise Port, Carnival Corporation, RCG-Royal Caribbean Group, NCLH-Norwegian, MSC, Virgin, and Viking signed an agreement...
September 19, 2022 - Cruise Industry
DeCurtis Experience Platform driving a new kind of cruise experience on Virgin Voyages’ fleet
DeCurtis Corporation (a leading location-and-proximity-based software developer) announced that its DXP/DeCurtis Experience Platform was driving a...
September 17, 2022 - Cruise Industry
VIDEO: Princess Cruises to welcome its new ship Sun Princess in early 2024
Princess Cruises revealed a new ship platform that is the brand's biggest ship ever and will accommodate 4,000+ passengers. The new Sun Princess...
September 16, 2022 - Cruise Industry
Ports of Stockholm (Sweden) to build a hydrogen fuelling station at Norvik Port
Sweden's Ports of Stockholm is beginning a hydrogen fuelling station procurement for Norvik Port. Hydrogen fuel is part of the environmental target...
September 14, 2022 - Cruise Industry
Gasum bunkers the first LNG-fuelled cruise ship built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique
The French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique (fka STX France in St-Nazaire) chose Gasum as the LNG supplier of fuel and technical adviser...
September 13, 2022 - Cruise Industry
White Bay Cruise Terminal (Sydney, NSW Australia) to provide ships with shore power in 2024
Shore-side power is coming to Sydney's White Bay Terminal and cruise ships will finally be able to plug into shorepower. For the first time in the...
September 13, 2022 - Cruise Industry
SeaDream Yacht Club is the first boutique cruise travel brand to offer Starlink Internet
A satellite Internet constellation that is operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Starlink now delivers high-speed Internet connectivity onboard the...
September 11, 2022 - Cruise Industry
Celebrity Cruises' newest ship Celebrity Beyond first to offer Elon Musk's Starlink Internet
The new Celebrity Cruises' ship Celebrity Beyond is set to be the first to offer guests the use of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet. The...
September 3, 2022 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises introduces ROBOTRON on fleet's newest ship MSC Seascape
MSC Cruises announced details of the technologically advanced onboard entertainment options on its newest vessel - MSC Seascape. When the vessel...
September 1, 2022 - Cruise Industry
RCG adds Starlink Internet on Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, and Silversea ships
RCG-Royal Caribbean Group (the world's second-largest cruise shipowner/after Carnival Corporation) announced it was planning to implement SpaceX...
August 31, 2022 - Cruise Industry
Ports of Stockholm to build Sweden’s first shore-power facilities for cruise ships
Ports of Stockholm (Sweden) is investing in the environment by building shoreside power connection facilities for cruise ships at two downtown quays...
August 30, 2022 - Accidents
Carnival cruise ships Magic and Legend experience satellite issues impacting their Internet service
Two CCL-Carnival Cruise Line ships operating in Northeast USA - Carnival Magic and Carnival Legend - are currently experiencing satellite antenna...
August 24, 2022 - Cruise Industry
Ponant’s cruise icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot collects Arctic Ocean data with FerryBox
-4H-JENA engineering GmbH (German manufacturer) installed its FerryBox (multi-parameter seawater sensor and measuring system) on a cruise ship to...
August 17, 2022