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
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
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