EC Calls for Cruise Ship Security Studies

EC Calls for Cruise Ship Security Study Submissions

The European Commission (EC) has issued a call for tender regarding a Study on Cruise Ship Security. According to ...

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Royal Princess Celebrates Her First Birthday

Royal Princess Celebrates First Birthday

Princess Cruises celebrated the first birthday of Royal Princess on June 13, which was launched in Southampton, ...

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Star Closes $814m Financing for 2nd Newbuild

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With a loan of over EUR 600 million, KfW IPEX-Bank is financing the construction of a second cruise ship for Star ...

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Mein Schiff 3 Joins TUI Fleet

Mein Schiff 3 Joins TUI Fleet

TUI Cruises, has taken delivery of the Mein Schiff 3, the first out of two ordered from STX Finland Oy’s Turku ...

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Port of Tallinn Opens New Cruise Ship Quay

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The Port of Tallinn opened the new 9.34 million Euro cruise ship quay on Saturday, May 17. The quay will allow ...

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Video: Laying the Keel for 3rd Oasis-Class Ship

Laying the Keel for 3rd Oasis-Class Ship

Last Friday, during the keel-laying ceremony for the Oasis III at STX in St. Nazaire, France, Royal Caribbean also ...

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USCG Aircrew Medevacs Woman from Cruise Ship

VIDEO Coast Guard Aircrew Medically Evacuates Woman from Cruise Ship

A 50-year old woman suffering health complications was medically evacuated from the cruise ship Carnival Liberty by ...

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Arctic Shipping Risk Case Studies

Arctic Shipping Risk Case Studies

Shipping activities in Arctic areas are certain to increase in the years to come and, as the Arctic is a ...

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AIDAcara’s Arrival in Kiel Opened Cruise Shipping ...

AIDAcara's Arrival in Kiel Opened Shipping Season

This year’s cruise shipping season in Kiel opened on Saturday April 5th when the first cruise ship of the year, the ...

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NTSB Hosts Two-Day Cruise Ship Safety Forum, USA

NTSB Hosts Two-Day Cruise Ship Safety Forum

U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will hold a two-day (March 25-26) public forum on cruise ship safety and ...

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MHI Faces $585 mln Loss Due to Construction Delays

MHI Faces $585 mln Loss Due to Construction Delays

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has decided to book an extraordinary loss of approximately $585 million ...

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STX France Bags Two Cruise Ships

STX France Bags Two Cruise Ships

MSC Cruises and STX France today signed a letter of intent (LOI) for the construction of two new cruise ships with ...

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Mein Schiff 1 to Enter Dry Dock in April

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Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven has been awarded a contract for dry docking work on the 76,998 GRT Mein Schiff 1. The ...

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TUI Cruises Announces New Ship Godmother

TUI Cruises Announces New Ship Godmother

Helene Fischer, a German singer and entertainer, will be the godmother of TUI Cruises’ eco-friendly ship Mein ...

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New Kongsberg’s Information Management System for ...

KONGSBERG New Information Management System for World's Largest Cruise Ship

Dragutin Radobuljac, the Chief Electrical Engineer on Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s mega cruise ship the ...

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Australia: Queensland Government to Decide on Future ...

Queensland Government to Decide on Future Cruise Ship Terminal

The Queensland Government has concluded an assessment of proposals for a cruise ship terminal on the Southport ...

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Norwegian GETAWAY About to Get Floated Out

Norwegian GETAWAY About to Get Floated Out

On 2 November 2013 the 146,600-gt cruise ship Norwegian GETAWAY, whose construction has taken merely 12 months, ...

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DMCA Hosts Joint Meeting of Cruise Ship Emergency ...

DMCA Hosts Joint Meeting of Cruise Ship Emergency Response Task Force Team

The Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) has hosted a coordinative and consultative meeting among concerned ...

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Fincantieri Signs LoI for New Ultra-Luxury Cruise Ship

Fincantieri, the world leader in cruise ship construction, and Seabourn, a Carnival Corporation & plc brand, ...

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Rolls-Royce’s Innovative Promas Lite System for ...

Rolls-Royce's Innovative Promas Lite System for Norwegian Cruise Ship

Rolls-Royce has won a contract to supply its innovative Promas Lite propulsion system to the Norwegian ship owner ...

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Italy: Fincantieri to Build Super-Luxury Cruise Ship ...

Fincantieri to Build Super-Luxury Cruise Ship for Compagnie du Ponant

Fincantieri and the French cruise line Compagnie du Ponant have signed a contract for the construction of a ...

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