First Large Cruise Ships Start Sailing in Post-Covid-19 Service

Published Jul 26, 2020 4:08 PM by The Maritime Executive

Large ocean-going cruise ships took their first tentative steps to resume service. Cruises departed this weekend aboard ships sail...

Meyer Werft Floats Out New Cruise Ship Spirit of Adventure for Saga

Published Jul 24, 2020 7:49 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany floated out the world’s newest cruise ship, the 58,250 gross ton Spirit of Ad...

Published Jul 24, 2020 3:13 PM by The Maritime Executive

In what is being seen as potentially a key step for the resumption of cruising in North America, the Centers for Disease Control a...

Published Jul 22, 2020 6:40 PM by The Maritime Executive

A startling and saddening video for many emerged today on social media showing the last moment of the cruise ship known as the Mon...

Published Jul 22, 2020 5:57 PM by The Maritime Executive

Princess Cruises, which had been the first of the large North American cruise lines in March 2020 to announce a suspension of oper...

Published Jul 21, 2020 7:47 PM by Allan E. Jordan

Just a month after Spain’s Pullmantur Cruises announced its insolvency, two of its cruise ships have arrived at the scrapyar...

Published Jul 20, 2020 8:59 PM by The Maritime Executive

Cruise and Maritime Voyages, a cruise operator focusing on the British market, was placed in receivership late today. This ends se...

Published Jul 17, 2020 9:10 PM by The Maritime Executive

Carnival Cruise Line is in the final stages of repatriating its crew members. More than 26,000 crew members have been sent home fr...

Published Jul 17, 2020 8:23 PM by The Maritime Executive

Celestyal Cruises announced that it has acquired the Costa NeoRomantica cruise ship from Costa Cruises. It becomes the seven...

Published Jul 16, 2020 9:32 PM by The Maritime Executive

The pandemic lockdown has temporarily been shut down the cruise ship industry and drastically reduced passenger airlines travel an...