Carnival is rolling outService Power Packages

Carnival to make cruise ships available as temporary hospitals

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), today announced that select cruise ships from the company’s global cruise line brands, including Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and P&O

CLIA cruise lines suspend operations from U.S. ports for 30 days

CLIA —the Cruise Line Industry International Association — announced yesterday that its ocean-going cruise lines will be voluntarily and temporarily suspending cruise ship operations from U.S. ports of call for 30 days

More cruise lines suspend sailings

More cruise lines have followed Carnival Corporation’s Princess Brand in announcing suspensions of sailings. They include Royal Caribbean Cruise Line which said today that, beginning midnight tonight, it will pause its fleet’s

VIDEO: Princess Cruises suspends operations for 60 days

In what it calls a “proactive response to the unpredictable circumstances evolving from the global spread of COVID-19,” Carnival Corporation’s Princess Cruises brand says it will voluntarily pause global operations of its

Royal Caribbean boosts liquidity, withdraws guidance

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd (NYSE: RCL) today reported that due to the spread and recent developments related to the COVID-19 outbreak, the company has increased its revolving credit capacity by $550 million

Celebrity Edge sails with all-female bridge and leadership team

After a week of downbeat news from the cruise industry, here’s one positive story. In what’s claimed as a first in maritime history, Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Edge departed Port Everglades yesterday with

Coronavirus: Grand Princess to dock in Oakland

In an update posted at 10.00 p.m. Saturday, Princess Cruises said it had received word from state and local response operations that Grand Princess will proceed to the Port of Oakland on

VIDEO: Grand Princess awaits results from test kits delivered by helicopter

As of this morning, Princess Cruises’ Grand Princess remained at sea off San Francisco pending the results of coronavirus tests on samples collected from 45 of the 3,553 people on board the

Meyer Turku floats out Carnival Mardi Gras

Carnival Cruise Line’s 180,000 GT, LNG-fueled future flag ship Mardi Gras was today floated out at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland. The 5,200-passenger ship was originally set for delivery in August,