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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 21:28 UTC

Tag: cruises

  • Monday, April 15th 2019 - 22:44 UTC

    Norwegian Sun begins on Monday popular cruises to Cuba

    The Norwegian Sun will offer four-, five- and seven-day cruises to Havana, Cuba, with select sailings also calling to Key West during its four-day cruises

    Norwegian Cruise Line’s Sun returns to Port Canaveral for the second season of popular cruises from the Port to Cuba, as well as excursions to the Bahamas. Starting Monday, April 15, the Norwegian Sun, which in 2018 became the first home-ported cruise ship to sail from Port Canaveral to Cuba, will offer four-, five- and seven-day cruises to Havana, Cuba, with select sailings also calling to Key West during its four-day cruises.

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 09:04 UTC

    Princess Cruises contracts construction of two next generation 175.000-ton ships

    The vessels will each accommodate some 4,300 guests and will be the first Princess Cruises ships to be dual-fuel powered primarily by Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

    Princess Cruises and Fincantieri announced on Thursday the signing of the final contracts for the construction of two next-generation 175,000-ton cruise ships, which will be the largest ships ever built so far in Italy, with deliveries scheduled in Monfalcone in late 2023 and in March 2025. This announcement follows the initial signing of a memorandum of agreement between the two parties in July 2018.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 08:17 UTC

    Costa Smeralda launched in Finland; first Costa cruise powered by Lng

    Costa Smeralda, which will enter service from October 2019, will be the first Costa ship powered by liquefied natural gas (Lng), the cleanest fossil fuel in the world

    Costa Crociere celebrated the technical launch of the new flagship Costa Smeralda at the Meyer shipyard in Turku, Finland. During the ceremony, the ship officially touched the sea for the first time. The celebration, which saw the participation of the top management of Costa Cruises and the Meyer shipyards, followed the protocol established by the maritime tradition, with the flooding of the basin where the ship has taken shape in recent months.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

    Cruise industry catering specifically for Chinese market with the delivery of “Costa Venezia”

    With a GT of 135,500 tons, 323m in length and a 5.200 guests capacity Costa Venezia is the largest ship introduced by Costa Cruises to the Chinese market

    The Italian brand of Carnival Corporation & plc, this week officially took delivery of Costa Venezia, its first ship designed specifically to offer the best of Italy to the Chinese market. Costa Venezia is part of an expansion plan that includes a total of seven ships being delivered to the Costa Group by 2023.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 10:03 UTC

    Argentina, Chile and Uruguay plan joint presentation at Seatrade Cruise Global 2019

    Seatrade Cruise Global 2019 is scheduled to take place between 8 and 11 April in cruise hub Miami.

    Argentina, Chile and Uruguay will be making a joint presentation at the next Seatrade Cruise Global 2019, in Miami, as part of a joint strategy to attract more cruise tourism to the region. The announcement was done by Uruguay's ports authority, Alberto Diaz who hosted a meeting of tourism and sea terminals representatives from the three countries.

  • Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 19:45 UTC

    MSC Orchestra collides with MSC Poesia at Buenos Aires Port

    The videos posted show details of the incident

    Two MSC cruise ships collided at the Port of Buenos Aires. One of the ships somehow lost control and hit another causing some damage. It was all caught on video.

  • Monday, February 18th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    Princess Cruises expands her fleet

    With two further ships on order for delivery in 2023 and 2025, Princess Cruises will increase its capacity by 32% over the next six years.

    In an industry-first, events took place at Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, to mark the construction progress for each of the 3,660-guest Sky Princess, Enchanted Princess and a sixth Royal-class ship yet to be named. For Sky Princess, which will launch in October this year, a Madrina ceremony was held.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

    Cruise vessels allowed to operate along the Chilean coast smaller ports

    Punta Arenas is expecting some 90.000 visitors this 2018/19 cruise season

    Chilean cruise operators and travel agencies have praised a bill approved by Congress, the Coastal traffic law, which allows cruise vessels with a 400 passenger capacity or more, and even smaller if there are no Chilean similar vessels, to sail along the country's ports.

  • Wednesday, January 9th 2019 - 07:00 UTC

    Volatile cruise market: regular lines with rebates of up to 19%, but premiums can be 60% higher

    Family favorite Disney Cruise Line leads in low prices for January 2019, with luxury line Regent Seven Seas close behind

    Good news: prices for many cruises in January 2019 are significantly lower than they were a year ago. However, there are major differences by cruise line. While the analysis found that the average cruise price per day actually increased by around 3% – from US$ 397 to US$ 407 per person per night – it also showed substantial price discounts for certain cruise lines.

  • Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

    MSC Cruises celebrates the float out of “Grandiosa”; she will be delivered next October

    MSC Grandiosa is due to become the third Meraviglia ship to enter MSC Cruises’ fleet, and first of three Meraviglia-Plus ships: MSC Meraviglia and MSC Bellissima

    MSC Cruises has celebrated the float out of MSC Grandiosa at the shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France where the ship is being built. She has now been moved to a wet dock, where work on the ship will continue until her delivery in October 2019.