Cruise Ship Industry News
Patreksfjordur joins Cruise Europe
Patreksfjordur is a new cruise destination in the Westfjords of Iceland. It is the largest town in the Southern Westfjords and the westernmost town of Europe, predominantly a fishing town with various services and public administration, Cruise Europe [Read more...]
Ports of Stockholm to open cruise ship shore power connections in two locations
Ports of Stockholm, an organisation that controls four ports in the region is to install shore power connections at two locations. “Cruise passengers are very important to Stockholm financially and generate over 1,000 jobs in the region. Onshore [Read more...]
TT-Line first Green Ship starts trials
German ferry operator TT-Line has announced that it first of two LNG-powered ropaxes, ‘Nils Holgersson’, has started trials in China. ‘Nils Holgersson’ is TT-Line’s first Green Ship and is under construction at the Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Jinling. The [Read more...]
Wärtsilä completes renovation of three Windstar vessels
Wärtsilä has completed equipment installations on the three lengthened Windstar cruise ships. The refits were undertaken by Fincantieri’s Palermo shipyard starting in 2019 with the first - ‘Star Breeze’, being completed in 2020. She was followed by the [Read more...]
Storylines to work with Carrier
To help meet its Clean Air Programme air quality standards for its planned residential cruise ship ’Narrative’, Storylines has chosen HVAC solutions company Carrier to provide comfort, air quality, safety and security. Carrier will provide HVAC and automation solutions that [Read more...]
Ritz-Carlton beefs up sales teams
Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection has appointed two senior sales people. Kristian Anderson (pictured) is the new Vice President of global sales and Karen Shiers is Senior Director of meetings, incentives, charters & events (MICE) sales. Anderson has worked in [Read more...]
ABS evaluates battery technologies
Both ferries and cruise ships operators have seen the potential in battery power on board, either for propulsion or for hotel usage. The potential of emerging battery technologies to contribute to shipping’s de-carbonisation was explored in the latest [Read more...]
Silversea takes delivery of 10th ship – opens Antarctic season
Ultra-luxury cruise line Silversea Cruises has taken delivery of the ’Silver Dawn’ at Fincantieri’s Ancona shipyard. ‘Silver Dawn’ is the third ship to join Silversea’s fleet since the start of 2020. “In welcoming the beautiful ’Silver Dawn’ as [Read more...]
Viking Line Orders Elogrids for second ropax
Viking Line is to fit Elomatic’s Elogrids on the ropax ‘Viking XPRS’. Elogrids are used to reduce a ship’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. They are installed at the entrance of tunnel thrusters to reduce additional resistance from [Read more...]
Viking Line in share issue
At Viking Line’s extraordinary general meeting held on 22nd November, 2021, at Mariehamn, Åland, it was decided to authorise a share issue. Up to 6,480,000 new shares will be issued with pre-emption rights for shareholders at a subscription [Read more...]