Tag: Royal Caribbean Cruises

• Monday, September 8th 2025 - 17:51 UTC

  World’s largest cruise vessel, 250.000 tons and 10.000 pax, ‘Legend of the Seas’, hits the water in Finland

  

  Royal Caribbean International has recently marked a milestone in the cruise industry, the world’s newest and largest cruise ship, Legend of the Seas, has officially touched the water for the first time.

• Saturday, September 24th 2022 - 07:43 UTC

  Royal Caribbean and DAP plan to promote Antarctica cruises from Puerto Williams in the Navarino island

  

  A large boost for the cruise industry in Chile, according to the leading newspaper of the country, El Mercurio. Royal Caribbean and Punta Arenas airline DAP are planning to invest some 18 million dollars in the construction of a five-star hotel in Puerto Williams, a small town on Chilean territory, Navarino island, across from Argentina's Ushuaia.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 07:34 UTC

  Nightmare: assessing the coronavirus damage for the cruise industry

  

  The novel coronavirus is becoming a financial and public-relations nightmare for the cruise industry, from failed quarantine attempts on ships to passenger lawsuits and a stream of cancellations.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  Royal Caribbean cancels cruises out of China until March 4

  

  Royal Caribbean Cruises has cancelled eight cruises out of China through March 4 in response to the coronavirus outbreak in the world's second-largest economy, the company said on Tuesday. The company said it expects the cancellations and some modifications to its itineraries to reduce earnings by 25 cents per share.

• Monday, December 16th 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  Minute of silence in New Zealand for volcano victims; Royal Caribbean potential criminal liability

  

  New Zealanders across the country observed a minute of silence on Monday to honour the victims of last week's fatal volcanic eruption. The official death toll from the surprise eruption on White Island, also known by its Maori name of Whakaari, stands at 16. Two people whose bodies are believed to be in the waters around the island are still officially listed as missing.

• Thursday, June 6th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Trump administration clamps down on US tourist visits to Cuba: cruise industry in shock

  

  The Trump administration clamped down on US tourist visits to Cuba on Tuesday, aiming to cut the flow of dollars to a country that Washington accuses of helping prop up Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

• Thursday, December 27th 2018 - 05:11 UTC

  “Harmony of the Seas” crew member lost in the Atlantic; US Coast Guard on the search

  

  The U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday it was searching for a British crew member who went overboard from a Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Arron Hough, 20, went overboard 430 km off the northwest of Puerto Rico on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Coast Guard 7th District revealed in a telephone interview.

• Monday, April 25th 2016 - 05:39 UTC

  Carnival retains cruise market leadership, but MSC is forecasted to double its share

  

  Carnival Corporation will retain its leading market share going forward, with more than 40% of the global cruise market by 2026, but down from 44.3% this year, according to the 2016/2017 Cruise Industry News Annual Report. Meanwhile, MSC Cruises will double its market share.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 05:26 UTC

  Meteorologists rebuke Royal Caribbean's “Anthem of the Seas” on weather report

  

  “Royal Caribbean should have known better”. That's the word Tuesday from weather experts who closely monitored the development of the storm that rocked the line's Anthem of the Seas, on Sunday and Monday.

• Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 08:30 UTC

  Norovirus outbreak on two cruise ships off the coasts of Mexico and California

  

  Hundreds of Royal Caribbean passengers were stricken with acute gastrointestinal ailments, including vomiting and diarrhea, on two cruise ships off the coasts of Mexico and California earlier this week. The debilitating illness was identified as norovirus, outbreaks of which aren’t uncommon on cruise ships, especially during the winter season.