Cruise Industry
Costa Toscana offers Arabian Sea cruise itinerary to UAE and Oman
Costa Cruises winter 2022-2023 schedule now includes a warm climate fly-cruise itinerary option with a few hours' flights from Europe. From December...
October 13, 2022
Hurtigruten Expeditions is the first to implement SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet fleetwide
Hurtigruten announced it will install SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service fleetwide, joining RCI-Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, and Silversea...
October 13, 2022
Lloyd’s Register approves NAPA Stability management software for passenger ships
NAPA’s new stability management software for passenger ships, NAPA Stability, has been approved by the classification society LR-Lloyd’s...
October 13, 2022
Godmother announced for Silversea Cruises' newest ship Silver Endeavour
Silversea named Felicity Ann Dawn Aston (MBE, FRGS) as the Godmother of its newest ship - Silver Endeavour/fka Crystal Endeavor. Felicity Aston is a...
October 13, 2022
RCI-Royal Caribbean restarts cruising to Vanuatu with Ovation OTS ship
RCI-Royal Caribbean will restart cruising to Vanuatu during a trial in the summer beginning with the arrival of Ovation of the Seas at Mystery Island...
October 12, 2022
P&O UK announces new Scandinavia & Baltic Sea cruise itineraries 2024
P&O Cruises UK announced a new series of Scandinavia and Baltic Sea itineraries scheduled for 2024 summer and fall. The 14- and 16-day long...
October 12, 2022
Alaska's Huna Totem Corp. breaks ground on $80M cruise dock in Whittier AK
On Monday, October 10, Alaska Native village company Huna Totem Corp. broke ground on a new US$80 million infrastructure development project for a...
October 12, 2022
Seychelles' 2022-2023 cruise season starts with MS Europa 2 ship
Seychelles' cruise season 2022-2023 will commence with the arrival of Hapag-Lloyd's ship MS Europa 2 expected in Port Victoria (Mahe Island) on...
October 12, 2022
Azamara's fleet (4 Renaissance-class cruise ships) for the first time ever meets in Koper (Slovenia)
The ultra-premium cruise company and travel brand Azamara celebrated a rare occurrence on October 8th in Slovenia's principal seaport - Koper, where...
October 12, 2022- Cruise Industry
MSC Opera chartered as a hotel ship in Doha during FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
A 3rd cruise ship has been hired by World Cup organizers in Qatar on Monday, October 10, to operate as a soccer fan hotel docked at the Port of Doha...
October 11, 2022 
NCL's newest ship Norwegian Prima completes first USA cruise from NYC
NCL-Norwegian Cruise Line announced the completion of the first U.S. voyage of Norwegian Prima, which sailed roundtrip from Cape Liberty Bayonne NJ...
October 11, 2022
Carnival Ecstasy ship departs on final voyage
Carnival Ecstasy commenced her final voyage on Monday, October 10. The 31-year-old boat that has carried ~5.5 million tourists on "fun ship...
October 11, 2022
Atlas Ocean Voyages takes delivery of 200-passenger expedition ship World Traveller
AOV-Atlas Ocean Voyages/fleet announced that it had taken delivery of the 200-passenger expedition ship World Traveller, which is due to be...
October 11, 2022
Greece-Turkey ferry service launched between Thessaloniki and Izmir
The 2011-initiated project for cruiseferry services between Turkey and Greece (İzmir and Thessaloniki) was finally completed...
October 10, 2022
NCL Norwegian deal with NYC for cruise ship charter/migrant housing unlikely
NYC's Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to house migrants at an NCL-Norwegian Cruise Line ship docked off Staten Island fizzled because it was too...
October 10, 2022