VIDEO: Cunard’s Queen Victoria gets a new lido deck
MAY 17, 2017 — Cunard’s 964.5 ft, 2,014 passenger Queen Victoria is currently in dry dock at Fincantieri’s Palermo, Sicily, shipyard for what Cunard says is a “partial” refit. The cruise ship
cruise ship
Costa Concordia: Schettino starts serving prison term
MAY 15, 2017 — Former Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino began serving a 16-year prison term Friday after Italy’s Supreme Court upheld his sentence and lower court convictions for manslaughter, causing a
Virgin Voyages ships to have Smart Air compressors
APRIL 20, 2017 — Oslo, Norway, headquartered TMC Compressors has won a contract from Fincantieri to supply an environmentally friendly compressed air system to the first of three cruise ships the Italian
Viking Ocean to build two more, maybe four, at Fincantieri
APRIL 18, 2017 — Viking Ocean Cruises and shipbuilder Fincantieri have signed a memorandum of agreement for the construction of two additional cruise ships, with an option for another two. The new
Foreship awarded BWTS consultancy contract
MARCH 15, 2017 — Helsinki, Finland, headquartered naval architecture and marine engineering consultancy firm Foreship has secured a major ballast water treatment system (BWTS) consultancy contract from Norwegian Cruise Line. The contract
Docking maneuver errors led to cruise ship allision
MARCH 7, 2017 — Too much speed and too steep an angle of approach resulted in the May 8, 2016, allision involving the cruise ship Carnival Pride in which more than $2
Busy first quarter for Grand Bahama Shipyard
MARCH 7, 2017 — Grand Bahama Shipyard Limited (GBSL) reports that it will complete work on 10 cruise vessels within the first quarter of 2017. Work will include included significant propulsion and
France and Fincantieri close to STX France compromise
MARCH 6, 2017 — France’s Le Monde newspaper reports that a compromise solution is in the works that will see the acquisition of shipbuilder STX France by a group in which Fincantieri
Carnival now has scrubbers installed in 60 cruise ships
FEBRUARY 27, 2017 — Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) reports that it has completed the installation and certification of Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) on an industry-leading 60 ships
Meyer Werft cuts steel for first LNG fueled cruise ship
FEBRUARY 23, 2017 — German shipbuilder Meyer Werft on Monday cut the first steel for what will be the world’s first LNG fueled cruise ship. The ship — yard number S.696 —