Princess Cruises is officially back in operation in Australia, as the Coral Princess sailed from the new state-of-the-art international cruise terminal in Brisbane.

Costa Cruises celebrates today at the port of Barcelona the naming ceremony of Costa Toscana, the latest flagship of the Italian cruise line. Godmother of the ship is Chanel Terrero Martínez, singer, actress and dancer who rose to success at the latest edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

The sale of two Crystal Cruises ships ended at an auction for 128 million dollars. Crystal Symphony, which entered service in 1996, sold for $ 25 million, and the 19-year-old Cristal Serenity for $ 103 million.

The two ships were arrested in the Bahamas after the collapse of the parent company Genting Hong Kong earlier this year.

Princess Cruises has canceled numerous voyages for 2023 on two of its royal-class ships in the Baltic region, Asia and Australia.

The entire Baltic season for Regal Princess, which was supposed to last from April 9, 2023 to September 3, 2023, has been canceled. The princess stated in the document that the reason is the ongoing war in Ukraine.

A crew member, together with about 40 shipboard employees who tested positive aboard MSC Meraviglia, reports that they have been transferred to a Covid hotel in Genoa, Italy. The crew member said that MSC Cruises has restored the policy to disembark crew towards land facilities in order to contain the number of positive cases on board within limits that can be acceptable by different port health authorities.

I’m a crew member currently here onboard Norwegian Escape. 

We have a situation here that most of the crew members are being extended without our consent. 

The luxury ocean, river and expedition cruise line Viking announced that it has canceled the request for testing on COVID-19 before the cruise, as well as during the trip.

The line said it decided to make the change because the CDC recently updated its travel protocols and no longer requires those traveling to the U.S. from a foreign country by plane to show a negative entry test.

Carnival Cruise Line announced that Costa Cruises ship Costa Luminosa will join the Carnival fleet in September and will begin operations as Carnival Luminosa in November 2022 from Brisbane, Australia. 

The acquisition of Costa Luminosa is an update of previously announced plans for Carnival to take over Costa Magica, which will now remain at Costa Cruises.

The construction of the first large cruise ship designed to be ready for methanol for future conversion into what is considered one of the next generation's fuels for the industry began in Turku, Finland. 

After 20 successful years in service for Aida Cruises, AIDAvita is leaving the fleet. AIDAcara had to leave the fleet last year, and now it's AIDAvita turn. 

From the departure of the AIDAcara until today, the AIDAvita was the oldest ship in the fleet built in 2002. However, as the oldest ship, AIDAvita has not completed a single cruise since the start of the pandemic. Again and again, a restart was planned but then has to be canceled. AIDA Cruises fleet is now reduced to twelve cruise ships,