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Man-overboard technology is an area that’s attracting increasing attention in the marine industry, says MARSS. The company – which terms itself a ‘global technology innovator’ – is actively pursuing the creation of an automated man-overboard system designed with the cruise industry in mind, and it’s been working on the solution for 14 years. It says […]
Eight people have scrambled through a series of African countries to rejoin their cruise ship after it left São Tomé and Príncipe without them. The passengers missed their ship’s scheduled departure time from the island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of Gabon, after disembarking to take a local tour, […]
The world’s largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, has set sail on its maiden voyage from Miami, Florida, amid accusations of greenwashing over its emissions. Royal Caribbean’s $2bn (£1.6bn) behemoth, which has earned the nickname the ‘human lasagne’ on social media, has seven pools, nine whirlpools and six waterslides. Icon of the Seas was […]
Royal Caribbean International’s Icon of the Seas has arrived in Miami. It dwarfed the skyline – it’s said to be the biggest cruise ship in the world with its seven pools, nine whirlpools and six waterslides – and was welcomed with much fanfare. At 365m in length (250,800 GT), it takes 2,350 crew members to […]
Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, has been named as one of the World’s Top Companies for Women for 2023 by Forbes. This is the third consecutive year that the company has received the accolade and it was the only cruise company recognised. The Forbes list of the top 400 companies cites those who […]
Marriott has revealed its plans to expand its fleet of luxury superyacht liners, operating under the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection brand, as it eyes a potential IPO. Ritz-Carlton launched the first of its new luxury yacht collection, the specially designed 190-metre Evrima, in 2022, after a three-year delay caused by the pandemic and supply-chain issues. The second […]
The cruise industry’s trade body has refuted recent media reports that Amsterdam has banned cruise ships from its city centre, as part of an ongoing campaign to limit tourism and pollution in the Dutch capital. Last week (20 July 2023), Amsterdam’s city council voted to close the cruise ship terminal in its centre, near Amsterdam’s […]
Survival technology provider, Survitec, has opened a new customer service centre in Miami, Florida. The new 371sqm facility doubles the size of the company’s operations. It will provide round-the-clock sales and service support to cruise ship operators, from one centralised location and with one point of contact. Survitec says its new premises will also facilitate the […]
Luxury cruise line Cunard has announced a new partnership with the nonprofit Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS). Experts from the RCGS will now be featured on select 2023 voyages as part of Cunard’s Insights onboard enrichment program. From June to August, the RCGS headliners will be on every Cunard voyage in the 2023 Alaska season on Queen Elizabeth […]
Regional transition to electric propulsion is no simple feat, but in Norway new government regulations will make zero-emissions mandatory in the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord from 2026. As a result, the only vessels allowed to operate in these fjords will have to be emission-free. It might be assumed that ferry operators […]
Luxury brand Four Seasons is launching a fleet of luxury passenger ships, the first of which will set sail in 2025. The company’s new business extension – Four Seasons Yachts – is a partnership between Nadim Ashi and Philip Levine from Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings Ltd, and shipbuilding group Fincantieri. The first in the fleet of […]