Royal Caribbean Group and Swan Hellenic will soon require their crew to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to work, according to the Crew Center. In an email to crew members obtained by the Miami Herald, Royal Caribbean Group said the company was still working [Read more...]
Maritime medical operations and public health provider VIKAND Solutions has appointed Damien O’Connor as Executive Vice President and General Manager for VIKAND Testing Solutions. VIKAND Testing Solutions is a cruise terminal testing initiative. O’Connor (pictured) will join the company on 1st March, 2021. “Damien will [Read more...]
French cruise ship builder Chantiers de l’Atlantique is to install a model of a Solid Sail/AeolDrive at the shipyard. This is the French yard’s solution for sailing propulsion adapted for large ships. This announcement was made during an e-event broadcast live from ‘MSC Virtuosa’ handing [Read more...]
US Miami-Dade County has signed a joint statement together with six cruise ship operators and Florida Power and Light in what is being hailed as the first step in bringing shore power to PortMiami. The six cruise companies involved are Carnival Cruise Lines, Disney Cruise Line, MSC [Read more...]
V.Ships Leisure is to take on the crew management for the world’s first fast ferry fitted with dual natural gas engines. The newly built ‘Eleanor Roosevelt’, to be operated by Spanish ferry company Balearia, also includes a number of features aimed at optimising passenger experience, [Read more...]
Swedish maritime internet service provider, AecorLink is to deliver high speed internet to Wasaline´s new ferry - ‘Aurora Botnia’. Wasaline has been using the company’s broadband service since 2017, on the ropax ‘Wasa Express’. The company claimed to have installed the first long distance shore [Read more...]
Energy company Gasum has entered into an agreement with the City of Vaasa, NLC Ferry Oy and Wärtsilä Finland to supply LNG to Wasaline. Wasaline operates the Vaasa/Umeå ferry route and is building an LNG fuelled ropax - ‘Aurora Botnia’. Gasum will also supply LNG [Read more...]
Royal Caribbean Group suffered a US GAAP net loss of $5.8 bill or a negative $27.05 per share for last year, compared to an income of $1.9 bill or $8.95 per share in 2019. The company also reported an adjusted net loss of $3.9 bill [Read more...]
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH), together with NCL Corp, has reported a GAAP net loss of $4 bill or EPS of a negative $15.75 for 2020, compared to net income of $930.2 mill or EPS of $4.30 for the previous year. NCLH also reported adjusted [Read more...]
On 24th February, Carnival Corp was due to close an underwritten public offering of $1 bill of shares of its common stock. Carnival said that it expected to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes. The offering of 40,450,619 shares was [Read more...]