Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) recently announced that its Board of Directors approved the adoption of a “Cruise Industry Passenger Bill of Rights” detailing CLIA members’ commitment to the safety, comfort and care of guests in a number of important areas. The CEOs of CLIA North American member cruise lines are each immediately verifying in [...]
The passenger ship MS Serenissima that ran aground in Oban Bay yesterday, has now been re-floated. With 61 passengers and 51 crew on board, no injuries were reported. There was also no reported pollution and no signs of damage. The RNLI all-weather lifeboat from Oban, HM Coastguard’s Oban Sector Manager along with the Oban and [...]
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading maritime services provider, announced that commercial and passenger traffic has resumed at the Port of Genoa, Italy, following the tragic Jolly Nero accident which brought down the Control Tower on Tuesday night. Commercial traffic resumed on the afternoon of May 9th as planned, with ferry and cruise traffic [...]
The Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 2002, which substantially raises the limits of liability for the death of, or personal injury to, a passenger on a ship, is set to enter into force on 23 April 2014, after the required 10 ratifications were reached on 23 April [...]
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No one was injured when a fire broke out on DFDS ‘combined freight and passenger vessel VICTORIA SEAWAYS during the night between Kiel, Germany and Klaipeda in Lithuania. The fire was observed on the ship’s main deck at 00:52, when the ship was about 22 nautical miles from Nexø on Bornholm. The ship´s extinguishing system [...]
On March 16, 2013, the State of Rio De Janeiro and Afai Southern Shipyard (Panyu Guangzhou) Ltd. signed a purchasing contract of importing a batch of seven full aluminum passenger ferries, of 2000 passengers each, from China. Governor of the State of Rio De Janeiro Mr. SéRGIO Cabral hosted the ceremony. Mr. Julio Luiz Baptista [...]
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Incat Crowther announced commencement of construction of a 26m Catamaran Passenger Ferry at Aluminium Marine in Queensland. The vessel has been commissioned by Southern Discoveries of New Zealand’s South Island. The new vessel will operate out of Queenstown, transferring passengers to isolated destinations on Lake Wakatipu. The vessel will be constructed with a removable wheelhouse, [...]
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The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is calling upon EU maritime administrations to ensure that they are ready to issue passenger ships with the required insurance certificates in order that ships can comply with the EU Passenger Liability Regulation (PLR). If the necessary certificates are not issued as required, by 31 December, then cruise ships [...]
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Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and the European Cruise Council (ECC), are pleased with the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) decision to approve incorporation of the cruise industry’s recommendation for the mandatory muster of passengers prior to departure from port in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS). This anticipated regulatory change [...]
IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), meeting at the Organization’s London Headquarters for its 91st session from 26 to 30 November 2012, agreed that rules to require passenger safety drills to take place prior to, or immediately upon, departure should be made mandatory, in the wake of the Costa Concordia incident. The Committee approved draft amendments [...]
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