Both Carnival and Royal Caribbean have cut the Mexican Riviera itinerary and are now sailing north to San Francisco, Seattle and Victoria BC instead because of the US Centres for Disease edict that Americans should not travel to Mexico. Their two biggest ships are now taking 7,000 people a week north to Canada instead of [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Interesting Swine Flu Statistics
Posted in News on 13 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More Slow (but Huge) Boats to China
Posted in Asia, Canada, Elsewhere, Mediterranean, News, Northern Europe, Orient, Passenger Freighters, World on 13 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The crash in freight rates and charter hire, drop in the price of fuel and the activities of pirates, not to mention the large number of new ships being delivered from orders placed before the recession, have led to some interesting changes in passenger freighter voyages.. The slow boat to China, for example, now gets [...]
Liquid Assets: How Ships Can Move
Posted in Alaska, Canada, Carnival, Celebrity, Fred. Olsen, MSC, Mediterranean, Mexico, Middle East, Norwegian Cruise Lines on 5 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recent events have shown how flexible an asset a cruise ship is compared to say a resort hotel or a factory. When Alaska imposes a $50 head tax, she can move away to the Caribbean or Europe; when European revenues are higher she can move in that direction and when security concerns engage Americans she [...]
A New Caribbean Passenger Freighter
Posted in Caribbean, News, Passenger Freighters on 5 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From The Cruise People, Ltd. – Canada’s Original Cruise Agency
This voyage would make an excellent starter voyage or holiday voyage.
21-day itinerary starts in Houston and sails to Cartagena (Columbia), Puerto Limon (Costa Rica), Santo Tomas de Castilla (Guatemala), Puerto Cortez (Honduras), Kingston (Jamaica), Veracruz (Mexico) and Altamira (Mexico) before returning to Houston.
Note: Being [...]
