US-based Atlas Ocean Voyages is to add four additional ships to its fleet. The Fort Lauderdale-based line will start cruise operations with the Mystic Cruise managed ‘World Navigator’ in 2021. She will be followed by another four in 2022 and 2023, ordered by Mystic Cruises [Read more...]
River cruise operator, Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection, is suing MSC Cruise Management (UK) Limited for damages, following a collision with a cruise ship in Venice last year. On 2nd June, 2019 Uniworld’s ‘River Countess’ was struck by ‘MSC Opera’, while the latter was arriving [Read more...]
Carnival Corp has Ocean Plastics Leadership Network (OPLN) as a charter member. OPLN is a new global community of retailers, brands, non-governmental organisations and alliances committed to sharing best practices, developing scientific breakthroughs and new business models, and working to develop new approaches, innovations and [Read more...]
Tallink Gruppe’s 1993-built ‘Silja Europa’ has arrived at the Turku Repair Yard in Naantali, Finland for scheduled maintenance and planned renewal works that would make the ship more environmentally friendly. She is due to stay at Naantali for two weeks before returning to the Tallinn-Helsinki [Read more...]
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has highlighted three independent reports published last year that show exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) when operated in open-loop mode, have minimal impact on water and sediment quality. The most recent report, conducted by CE Delft and co-sponsored by CLIA, [Read more...]
MSC Cruises and Chantiers de l’Atlantique have agreed to build a third and fourth LNG-powered ‘World’ class ships. The yard and MSC also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development of a new prototype class of four LNG-powered cruise ships to operate under [Read more...]
Wärtsilä will supply Chantiers de l‘Atlantique, with a comprehensive package of integrated solutions designed to support and enhance the efficiency and environmental sustainability of the first two ‘World’ class cruise vessels being built for MSC Cruises. Each ship will operate on LNG as a fuel, [Read more...]
In a reaction to the coronavirus outbreak in China, which has now spread to other countries, cruise lines operating in Asia are taking steps to protect their guests from the risk of being affected, including cancelling sailings. Astro Ocean, Costa Cruises, Royal Caribbean Cruises, MSC [Read more...]
As one of the biggest supplier of high-res 360 deg panorama camera systems in Europe for ski resorts and tourism locations, Panomax has turned its attention to the cruise ship sector. In doing so it has had success with Hapag-Lloyd’s ‘Europa’, which was fitted with [Read more...]
Subsea Global Solutions (SGS) has entered into a new agreement with long term client Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd (RCCL) to provide underwater hull maintenance and repair services for its 58 ship fleet. These include cruise ships trading under the banners of Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity, [Read more...]