Tag: cruises

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

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

  

  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.

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

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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 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.

• Thursday, February 8th 2018 - 11:21 UTC

  Busy cruise visitors week for Ushuaia: 20.000 landed during January

  

  Ushuaia in the extreme south of Argentina is experiencing one of the busiest weeks of the current cruise season with six vessels and thousands of visitors calling at the capital of Tierra del Fuego. This includes the “Emerald Princess”, which is the largest to visit the End of the World city and will be completing its third call this season.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:23 UTC

  Seatrade Cruise Global returns to the renovated Miami Beach Convention Center

  

  Seatrade Cruise Global, the leading annual global business-to-business event in the cruise industry, will return to the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Center 8-11 April 2019 after a three year stint at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center.