Commissioner Sola led cruise fact vfinding

Cruising: With CSO gone, booking season hopes mount

We’re now into the cruise industry’s “Wave season,” the three-month period from January 1 to March 31 when — prior to COVID — cruise lines and travel agents historically booked the largest

Preliminary insolvency administrator

Insolvency administrator goes to work at Genting’s German shipyards

There’s some good news for the approximately 2,000 employees at Genting Hong Kong’s German shipbuilding subsidiary MV Werften, which filed for insolvency January 10. Though they have not been paid their December

Princess Cruise Lines pleads guilty to second breach of probation

In a reminder that breaches of probation have consequences, the U.S. Department on Justice reports that Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. yesterday pleaded guilty to a second violation of probation imposed as a

cruise ship setting out to sea

CLIA calls new CDC cruise warning “perplexing”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its COVID-19 Travel Health Notice level for cruising from Level 3 to Level 4, the highest level. The CDC says this reflects increases

Richard D. Fain Royal Caribbeab

Royal Caribbean breaks industry silence on Omicron impact

Royal Caribbean Group has become the first major cruise ship operator to release a statement on the impact of the Omicron coronavirus on its business—and on the number of cases reported aboard

Ocean Victory in Alaska

Ocean Victory gets ice-block christening

The Ocean Victory, one of a series of X-Bow expedition cruise vessels of Ulstein’s CX103 design, was recently officially named in South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was christened by

Cruise ship at sea

Viking takes delivery of first expedition ship

Torstein Hagen’s Viking cruises has taken delivery of Viking Octantis, the first of two new purpose-built expedition ships. The delivery ceremony took place yesterday at Fincantieri group member Vard’s Søviknes, Norway, shipyard.

Arnold Donald

Carnival: $2 billion loss, but cash-positive operations

The world’s largest cruise ship operator, Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) released a fourth quarter 2021 business update that included an adjusted net loss of $2 billion. Still, the

Coastal cruise ship

Hornblower’s American Queen Voyages renames two ships

The Hornblower Group’s American Queen Voyages is to rename its sister passenger ships Victory I and Victory II as Ocean Voyager and Ocean Navigator when they re-enter service in early 2022. The

Cruise ships at the Port of New Orleans

Cruises return to the Port NOLA with 285 ship calls for 2022

Both ocean-going and inland river cruises are scheduled to make a comeback at the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) in 2022. The arrival of the Norwegian Breakaway on November 21 at

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