Cruise Ship Industry News
Carnival Corp set to weather the storm
Carnival Corp has reported a GAAP net loss of $2.2 bill fore the fourth quarter of last year and an adjusted net loss of $1.9 bill. At the end of December, 2020, the group had $9.5 bill in [Read more...]
Damen Group gets ‘Pride of Canterbury’ back to work
Late last year, the Damen group completed a project to replace one of the twin rudder stocks on P&O Ferries’ ‘Pride of Canterbury’. The 180 m long, 30,635 gt ropax operates on the Dover/Calais crossing. The nearly 30-year [Read more...]
USCG offers cruise ship contracting opportunity
The US Coast Guard (USCG) has introduced a contracting opportunity for the Underway Foreign Passenger Vessel Examiner Course. USCG’s Cruise Ship National Centre of Expertise (CSNCOE) requires interested parties to bid to host three Foreign Passenger Vessel Examiner [Read more...]
CLIA UK introduces webinar series
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) UK & Ireland’s Wave 2021 campaign is called ‘Generation Innovation’. The campaign will promote the diverse range of innovative initiatives and activities being rolled out across the industry and by individual cruise lines, [Read more...]
Schulte invests in digital technology – buys Resco
The Schulte Group has acquired Rescompany Systems (Resco), a provider of hospitality software solutions to the cruise industry. With its integrated ship-to-shore software systems, Resco is a perfect match and ideal addition to the services offered by Schulte [Read more...]
Two RCI cruise ships to stay in British Virgin Islands
Royal Caribbean has received permission for two of its cruise ships to remain in warm layup in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) confirmed last week that ‘Rhapsody of the Seas’ and ‘Grandeur of the [Read more...]
Cargo volumes sustain Viking’s ferry services
Due to the pandemic, only four of Viking Line’s seven vessels were in regular service last year, and passenger volume fell 70% compared to 2019, the company said in a business update. In 2020, Viking Line was forced [Read more...]
‘Eleanor Roosevelt’ nears delivery
Spanish ferry company Baleària’s LNG powered high speed ropax ‘Eleanor Roosevelt’, currently under construction at the Armon shipyards at Gijon, will begin sea trials ‘in the coming weeks’. Following her trials, the vessel will be delivered in March of [Read more...]
‘Wasa Express’ to join Red Sea operator
Joint Finnish/Swedish shipowner Kvarken Link’s subsidiary Wasaline is to sell the 1981-built battery-powered ropax ‘Wasa Express’ to United Arab Emirates-based UME Shipping. ‘Wasa Express’ will be delivered to UME shipping following the delivery of the ‘Aurora Botnia’ to take her place [Read more...]
Russia’s first LNG bunker tanker hits the water
Russia’s first LNG bunkering tanker for cargo and passenger vessel refuelling, ‘Dmitry Mendeleev’ under construction for Gazprom Neft, was launched from the shipyard last month. The shipyard completed the main stage of the vessel’s construction, including assembling the hull [Read more...]