BRIC CruisingMuch has been made of the term BRIC, representing the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, and cruising development has also been taking place in these markets, most particularly in Brazil.
It is a little-known fact that the Brazilian cruising market is the equal of the burgeoning Spanish market. In 2008-09, for example, [...]
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Posted in Alaska, Asia, Costa, Crystal, Disney, Louis, MSC, Oceania, South America on 21 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Battle of the Cruise Giants?
Posted in Carnival, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean on 17 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The North American cruise market will soon see three news giants added to the fleets of Royal Caribbean International, Norwegian Cruise Line and Carnival Cruise Lines. Within the next few months, Oasis of the Seas, Norwegian Epic and Carnival Dream, largest ship ever built for each of the top three lines, will enter service from [...]
New NORWEGIAN EPIC to Cross Atlantic 24 June 10
Posted in Caribbean, News, Norwegian Cruise Lines, TransAtlantic on 14 September, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Norwegian Cruise Line has announced that Norwegian Epic, the company’s largest and most innovative ship to date currently under construction in France, will make her inaugural transatlantic seven-day cruise on June 24, 2010, departing from Southampton. The 4,200 passenger Freestyle Cruising ship will arrive in New York, her first port of call in the United [...]
Master Appointed to New QUEEN ELIZABETH
Posted in Cunard, News on 2 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Captain Chris Wells, who joined Cunard as second officer in Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1992, has been appointed Master of the company’s new 90,000-ton liner, Queen Elizabeth, which will enter service in October 2010.53-year-old Captain Wells, who is married to Hedda – whom he met in QE2 – was born and brought up in Bournemouth, [...]
Princess Ships Start Plugging Into Shore Power at Port of Vancouver
Posted in Uncategorized on 2 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Island Princess Inaugurates New Canada Place Facility to Reduce Air Emissions
Island Princess helped inaugurate the Port of Vancouver’s new shore power facility by turning off her engines and instead “plugging in” to hydroelectric power from shore.
The new shore power technology at the Canada Place cruise ship terminal enables Princess Cruises’ ships, and other equipped vessels, [...]
Large Advance Purchase Savings on World Passenger Freighter Sailings
Posted in Passenger Freighters, World on 1 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Book our Pearl String full world voyage over 12 months in advance and save 1000 Euros per person. Book the full voyage over 6 months ahead and save 500 Euros per person.
We are delighted to recommend this voyage. We just booked our 24th and 25th clients [...]
