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Belfast (Northern Ireland) expects GBP 20M boost in 2023 from 170 cruise ship calls (a record year)
Belfast (Northern Ireland UK) can expect a GBP 20 million boost to its economy in 2023 as it pulls in a total of 170 cruise ship calls over a...
March 7, 2023 - Cruise Industry
MSC Cruises partners with ORCA to prevent marine wildlife collisions
MSC Cruises partnered with Marine Conservation Charity ORCA to deliver a comprehensive ship strike mitigation program for the company's deck officers...
March 7, 2023 - Cruise Industry
Alaskan Dream Cruises opens 2024 reservations at 2023 rates
Indigenously-owned company Alaskan Dream Cruises opened its 2024 itineraries for booking at the 2023's rates. The program includes all of the travel...
March 7, 2023 - Accidents
Irish Ferries' Isle of Innisfree ship adrift after an engine room fire accident in the middle of...
French and British authorities on March 3rd received a report that an Irish Ferries-operated ship in the middle of the English Channel had been...
March 7, 2023 - Cruise Industry
ACL-American Cruise Lines begins its biggest season ever on the Mississippi
ACL-American Cruise Lines has just commenced the biggest season ever on the Mississippi. In 2023, the company is introducing its new American...
March 6, 2023 - Cruise Industry
Crystal Cruises outsources travel management services to GMT-Global Marine Travel
GMT-Global Marine Travel will provide travel management services to Crystal, relaunching its cruise brand with a couple of ships in the summer of...
March 6, 2023 - Cruise Industry
Auctioned cruise ship World Dream renamed Manara after its sale to Cruise Saudi
Cruise industry sources in Singapore state that the 150,700 GT cruise ship World Dream (2017-built for GHK's Dream Cruises), which was delivered...
March 6, 2023 - Accidents
FBI Columbia investigating suspicious death aboard Carnival Sunshine cruise ship
The FBI Columbia SC field office is currently investigating a suspicious death that happened onboard a CCL-Carnival Cruise Line ship homeported in...
March 6, 2023 - Accidents
Ferry passenger with 90 blocks of hashish caught in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Zona Canarias' Guardia Civil detained a ferry passenger in Puerto de la Luz (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), who was traveling from Lanzarote (Arrecife...
March 5, 2023 - Cruise Industry
AIDA Cruises boasts triple call in Port St. John’s (Antigua)
On February 27th, not one but three AIDA ships moored in Port St Johns on the Caribbean island of Antigua, when the Caribbean schedules of the...
March 5, 2023 - Cruise Industry
Scenic announces 2024 European River Cruise Season featuring 2 new itineraries
Scenic Group announced its 2024 European River Cruise offerings featuring a couple of new itineraries: a 10-day Danube in Depth visiting the historic...
March 5, 2023 - Cruise Industry
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line offers twice as many voyages from Norfolk VA in 2023
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line announced it is doubling down on voyages from Norfolk VA (Virginia USA) and ramping up for year-round operations beginning...
March 5, 2023 - Cruise Industry
Taiwan loosens COVID control measures on international cruise ships
Taiwan further loosened its COVID control protocols on international cruise ships in an attempt to boost tourism, the Maritime and Port Bureau...
March 4, 2023 - Accidents
Fire breaks out on Irish Ferries' ship Isle of Innisfree (Dover-Calais route)
3 lifeboats from Kent along with a French salvage tug were launched after a fire broke out on a Dover-Calais ferry in the English Channel. The...
March 4, 2023 - Cruise Industry
Fred Olsen unveils new 106-night Wolrd Voyage on MS Bolette ship
Departing from Southampton (England UK) on January 6th, 2025, Fred Olsen Cruise Lines' flagship Bolette is due to follow a similar route to the first...
March 3, 2023