Windstar Cruises completed the last of their three all-suite Star Plus Class yachts and delivered it on October the 13th at Fincantieri shipyard in Palermo, Italy. It is a $250 million project, to stretch and transform the yacht over a multi-year, that makes the project most complex and comprehensive renovation in the business with small ship cruising.
The German weekly magazine Stern together with Scope ESG Analysis published a list of the most environmentally friendly and safe cruise ships. The ranking is based 70% on the environmental score and 30% on a safety score, the report said. For the environmental score, it was taken in consideration how much CO2 a cruise ship emits with regard to the climate targets to be achieved. The report shows to what extent the cruise lines miss, achieve or exceed these goals.
Marella Cruises today announced the fifth cruise ship joining its fleet, which will launch in 2023. The cruise line will welcome Marella Voyager which is currently sailing under TUI Cruises as Mein Schiff Herz. The Century-class ship was originally built for Celebrity Cruises and is identical sister ship to Marella Explorer.
March, 2020 was the last time a vessel on a regular cruise call visited the stunning beaches of St. Maarten. That means 12th of October, 2021, when Carnival Freedom docked the port with 1,700 passengers was a day of celebration, a day when officially Carnival Cruise Line returns to cruising to the island.
ITA and Costa Cruises have signed a letter of intent that aims to define joint commercial initiatives for the promotion of the new products and services. The bilateral partnership between Ita which succeeds Alitalia and Costa Cruises “predicts that Ita be identified by Costa as the “preferred air carrier for cruise travel to medium and long destinations,” guaranteeing fly & cruise services.
President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement that South Africa is moving to adjusted alert level 1 meaning that cruise tourism to the country can resume. The first cruise ship is scheduled to dock at the Cape Town Cruise Terminal in the V&A Waterfront on 18 November and a further 36 ships are expected between November 2021 and May 2022, according to a statement by Wesgro, the official tourism, trade and investment Labeeqah Schuurman, spokesperson for the Cruise Cape Town initiative, says t
Norwegian Jade will host "Keep the Blues Alive," having the Legendary Steve Winwood and Joe Bonamassa onboard. After seven sold-out Caribbean cruises and the sold-out Mediterranean cruise, follows Keeping The Blues Alive at Sea Mediterranean II, 23-28th of August, 2022-sailing on the Norwegian Jade from Athens, Greece to Mykonos and to Kushadasi, Turkey.
Costa Cruise’s latest LNG-powered XL-class ship Costa Toscana, headed out to sea trials on Monday, Finland-based shipbuilder Meyer Turku said. During the sea trials the ship’s operations and equipment will be tested for a little over a week, after returning back to the shipyard, the shipyard added. Assisted by the tugs, the ship left Meyer Turku while the event was witnessed by a large number of people gathered on nearby shores.
The Cayman Islands are off the itinerary charts for all cruise ships until the end of the year, after the government officials approved the extension of the ban on all cruise arrivals to the Island.
October 13, 2021 was supposed to be the day for Disney Wonder’s stop in the port of Cabo San Lucas, but the tropical depression, expected to become Tropical Storm Pamela in the Pacific Ocean affected the itinerary and forced the ship to make a last-minute change and replace the port with a stop in Ensenada.
