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.
Two passengers were injured after a freak wave hit the side of a cruise ship while sailing in the Caribbean.
MSC Divina was sailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Nassau, Bahamas as part of a 7-night Western Caribbean cruise, when a rogue wave hit the side of the ship late on Thursday night injuring two passengers. The cruise departed from Miami, Florida on November 21 and arrived back on November 28 as scheduled. Continue reading
The Norwegian Spirit entered Port Canaveral on Saturday and marked first Norwegian Cruise Line ship based there since 2012.
The 879-foot and 75,338 tons Spirit was constructed for Star Cruises by Meyer-Werft and entered cruise service in 1998 as the SuperStar Leo. When the ship joined the Norwegian fleet in 2004, Continue reading
Authorities have officially suspended their search for a South Carolina woman who allegedly jumped into the sea off the Norwegian Pearl last week, in the midst of a Mad Decent Boat deck party.
According to officials, the U.S. Coast Guard called off its search for 24-year old Kaylyn Rose Sommer Continue reading
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany to order a fifth Quantum-class ship, to be delivered in the fall of 2020. The announcement came on Tuesday, a day before the line’s second Quantum-class ship, Anthem of the Seas, arrived in its permanent homeport of Bayonne, New Jersey, Continue reading