‘Carnival Magic’ was due to complete her drydocking in Marseille on 24th May. She was given a new red, white and blue livery that will soon become a trademark of the Carnival Cruise Line fleet. The new design was first seen on the ’Mardi Gras’, and [Read more...]
Four Royal Caribbean cruise ships are due to drydock at Navantia Cadiz, according to a company blog. The ‘Harmony of the Seas’ (pictured) was the first to arrive on 12th March to undergo work on her propellers, stabilisers and bottom valves, as well as some [Read more...]
‘Celebrity Infinity’ has arrived at Navantia’s Cadiz shipyard to undergo an extensive drydocking. During her 16-day docking, ‘Celebrity Infinity’ will receive be fitted with new valves, undergo hull repairs, the renewal of propellers and stabilisers, and a new coating, the Crew Center has reported. According [Read more...]
Norway’s Green Yard Kleven has been awarded a contract to convert Hurtigruten’s ‘Finnmarken’ into a hybrid-powered expedition cruise ship. Built at the Kleven shipyard in 2002 for the West Coast of Norway service, she recently returned to the yard to begin the rebuild. “This is [Read more...]
Now sporting P&O Cruises Australia livery and funnel logo, ‘Pacific Encounter’, ex ‘Star Princess’, left a Singapore shipyard recently. Each of the P&O funnel logos is 20 m wide and 8 m high. She was also fitted-out with many of the Australian cruise line’s favourite [Read more...]
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 old vessel is equipped with twin patented [Read more...]
Trimline has adapted quickly to the pandemic invoked situation and is working closely with the cruise and ferry sectors to help them resume service. The company said that its adaptable and experienced teams of tradespeople were often boarding ships at sea with minimal crew and [Read more...]
Fincantieri has been granted a 40-year concession to exclusively manage a new Mexican shiprepair yard. The new repair yard will be built in the Port of Progreso in Yucatán State, Mexico and will have two drydocks able to take ships up to 400 m in [Read more...]
Thordon Bearings is to retrofit its grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings to ForSea Ferries’ ‘Tycho Brahe’, during her next scheduled drydocking. This contract follows the success of the bearing installation to the bow doors of ‘Aurora’, the first of two battery-operated ferries converted by Sweden’s Oresund Drydocks [Read more...]
The lifting of the US ‘No-Sail Order’ puts cruise shipbuilding back on track and activities at resin applications specialist Bolidt have quickly ramped up in response, the company revealed. In what represents a significant step forward for the cruise industry, the US Centres for Disease [Read more...]