While cruise ship companies are struggling to lure passengers by building the biggest ever ships and offering various first-of-its-kind amenities aboard, they have been loudly trumpeting how their ships’ monster engines are designed to run as cheap as possible. However, there are concerns that the bigger the ships are the more polluting and harmful they are to the living world. Continue reading
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Carnival Magic Emerges from Extensive Makeover
The Magic is one of cruise giant Carnival’s newest ships as it was built in 2011. The 130,000 gross ton ship underwent a multi-million dollar renovation and refurbishment during a two-week dry dock at the Grand Bahama Shipyard in Freeport, Bahamas. The upgrades include many of the onboard features and venues Continue reading
Giant Anthem of the Seas Damaged by 30 Foot Waves
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One of the world’s newest and biggest cruise ships was caught in a powerful winter storm that damaged the ship and left passengers confined to their cabins.
The giant Royal Caribbean’s Anthem Of The Seas was heading to Port Canaveral, Florida from its home port of Cape Liberty, New Jersey when it encountered the storm off the coast of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina on Saturday. Continue reading
Port Canaveral Honored With Best North American Port Award
Port Canaveral has been named the Best North American Homeport in last year’s Cruise Critic U.S. Editors’ Picks Awards. The Port was honored to be named the Best North American Cruise Port by the editors of CruiseCritic.com, the world’s leading cruise reviews site and online cruise community. Read more on the topic here.
Work Continues on the New Cruise Terminal 5 Parking Garage at Port Canaveral
Renovation of Cruise Terminals 5 and Cruise Terminal 10 is under way at Port Canaveral, following the opening of the new $110 million Cruise Terminal 1 last December. Next year, mega-ships such as the Carnival Magic, Norwegian Epic, and Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas start calling Port Canaveral home, and the number of homeported ships will increase to 10. More on the topic here.