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 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
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
A 46 foot x 15 foot planing catamaran is currently under construction at Armstrong Marine USA, Port Angeles, Wash., for Liberty National Golf Club, Jersey City, N.J. Called Liberty National I, it
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
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
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
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
Officials of SUNY Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, N.Y., recently joined executives of ferry operator Hornblower in a ceremony that saw the college’s navigation lab renamed the “Hornblower E-Navigation Lab.” The naming marked
Austal has celebrated its latest development in high-speed trimaran technology by unveiling an 83 meter trimaran ferry, under construction for JR Kyushu Jet Ferry of Japan, in a ceremony at the company’s