Cruise Ship Industry News
Miami cruise ship interior design show opens for registration
Registration for June’s Cruise Ship Interiors Design Expo Americas is now open. The Expo takes place on 6th and 7th June at the Miami Beach Convention Centre, Florida under a new look branding and show name. By registering, [Read more...]
Largest Italian built cruise ship hits the water
The float out of ‘Sun Princess’, the first of two LNG cruise ships for Princess Cruises, has taken place in Monfalcone. At 175,500 gt ‘Sun Princess’ is the largest ship built thus far in Italy, as well as [Read more...]
Carnival gains new revolving credit facility
Carnival Corp (CCL) has arranged a new forward starting $2.1 bill multi-currency revolving credit facility. This new revolver will replace CCL’s existing multi-currency revolving credit facility upon its maturity in August, 2024. It was issued by CCL’s subsidiary [Read more...]
NCLH almost halves losses
At the end of last month, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) (together with NCL Corp) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022 and provided guidance for the first quarter and full year 2023. GAAP [Read more...]
Lindblad narrows loss
Lindblad Expedition Holdings reported 2022 tour revenues of $421.5 mill, an increase of $274.4 mill, compared to the same period in 2021. The rise was driven by a $195.6 mill increase at the Lindblad segment and a $78.8 mill increase at the Land Experiences segment, [Read more...]
Finnlines enjoys revenue increase despite geopolitical problems
Ro-ro and ropax operator Finnlines recorded revenue of €736.1 mill for the full year 2022, an increase of 27% compared to the same period in the previous year. Shipping and Sea Transport Services generated revenue of €712.1 mill, [Read more...]
Record year for Wasaline
Finnish ropax operator Wasaline’s revenue grew by 78.6% in 2022, despite travel restrictions being in place for the first quarter. Passenger services revenue grew by 150.7% and volumes were up 149%. For cargo services, revenue grew by 7.7% [Read more...]
Brittany Ferries nearly back to pre-COVID levels
French ferry operator Brittany Ferries reported a profit of €22.6 mill, on a total turnover of €444.7 mill last year. This was more than double the preceding year’s turnover of €202.4 mill and just €22 mill less turnover [Read more...]
Exploris to tap into LR’s fleet operations tool
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has been chosen by newly formed expedition cruise company Exploris to provide an integrated application for its fleet operations. Exploris will use LR’s Cloud Fleet Manager (CFM) platform, which is a comprehensive portfolio, with which [Read more...]
Quark Expeditions to expand Marlink’s hybrid satcoms solutions
Smart digital solutions service provider, Marlink has provided high throughput hybrid network solutions for Quark Expeditions’ ’Ultramarine’ since the start of the 2021 Arctic season. After the first full year of operations, Quark Expeditions found that guests and staff on ’Ultramarine’ had [Read more...]