On November 7, the Caribbean Princess became the first  cruise  vessel of the 2017/2018  cruise  season to transit the Expanded Panama Canal.
                            News ID: 77197                       Publish Date                    : 2017/11/10
                            
                            In 2017:
            
            “While the Asian  cruise  market has grown tremendously within the past four years – it has the potential to capture a much larger percentage of the Asian population, which could catapult Asia’s capacity share ahead of competing markets,” said Joel Katz, executive director, CLIA
                            News ID: 76211                       Publish Date                    : 2017/09/11
                            
                            In 2017:
            
            “While the Asian  cruise  market has grown tremendously within the past four years – it has the potential to capture a much larger percentage of the Asian population, which could catapult Asia’s capacity share ahead of competing markets,” said Joel Katz, executive director, CLIA
                            News ID: 76211                       Publish Date                    : 2017/09/11
                            
                            
            
            DP World is about to open a new terminal designed to accommodate the largest operating  cruise  vessels this summer at Limassol port, Cyprus.
                            News ID: 74821                       Publish Date                    : 2017/07/07
                            
                            
            
            Italian  cruise  liner company Costa Group and its parent Carnival Corporation revealed plans to hire approximately 4,500 Italian crew members by 2022 to provide support for existing and primarily new ships currently on order.
                            News ID: 74298                       Publish Date                    : 2017/06/02
                            
                            
            
            A steel cutting ceremony was held on February 21, 2017 for the world's first  cruise  ship that will be run completely on LNG.
                            News ID: 72547                       Publish Date                    : 2017/02/22
                            
                            
            
            Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has been linked to a binding deal on construction of  cruise  ships for the Chinese market, Bloomberg reports citing undisclosed sources familiar with the matter.
                            News ID: 72544                       Publish Date                    : 2017/02/22
                            
                            
            
            Accident investigators are heading to Akaroa in New Zealand to investigate a collision between a luxury  cruise  liner and a cement carrier.
                            News ID: 72310                       Publish Date                    : 2017/02/13
                            
                            
            
            THE South Korean government is looking to set up a fund of around Won100bn ($83.7m) to provide financial aid to the domestic  cruise  industry as it seeks to ramp up  cruise  tourism volumes.
                            News ID: 71587                       Publish Date                    : 2017/01/16
                            
                            
            
            The South African 2016/17  cruise  season began on November 1, 2016, with the arrival of the first international  cruise  liner, MSC Sinfonia, at the Port of Durban.
                            News ID: 70034                       Publish Date                    : 2016/11/02
                            
                            
            
            The South African 2016/17  cruise  season began on November 1, 2016, with the arrival of the first international  cruise  liner, MSC Sinfonia, at the Port of Durban.
                            News ID: 70034                       Publish Date                    : 2016/11/02
                            
                            
            
            Miami-based  cruise  ship company Carnival Cruise Line has signed an agreement under which it would nearly triple the size of the Long Beach Cruise Terminal facility from 66,000 square feet to 142,000 square feet to accommodate larger ships in the future.
                            News ID: 69639                       Publish Date                    : 2016/10/23
                            
                            
            
            Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is planning to stop taking new orders for large passenger ships, downsizing its shipbuilding operations due to a slump in orders.
                            News ID: 69597                       Publish Date                    : 2016/10/17
                            
                            
            
            During the summer, the  cruise  ship fleet surged past half a million berths of total capacity as the  cruise  industry continued to expand its horizons.
                            News ID: 69162                       Publish Date                    : 2016/09/27
                            
                            
            
            In a historically weak contracting environment the  cruise  sector has seen a strong level of newbuild ordering and investment in the year to date, says a research report by Clarkson.
                            News ID: 68280                       Publish Date                    : 2016/08/19
                            
                            
            
            The  cruise  industry in Asia is growing at a record pace and shows no signs of slowing down, according to Cruise Lines International Association’s (CLIA) 2016 Asia Cruise Trends study.
                            News ID: 68210                       Publish Date                    : 2016/08/15
                            
                            
            
            ROLLS-Royce Holdings has signed an agreement with Norway-based shipbuilder Kleven to design and equip two polar  cruise  vessels.
                            News ID: 67623                       Publish Date                    : 2016/07/20
                            
                            
            
            A  cruise  ship sank in the Amazon River after an explosion. Five of the Aqua Amazon’s crew are apparently missing and 13 crew members injured. There were no passengers onboard at the time.
                            News ID: 66581                       Publish Date                    : 2016/07/18