Accidents
CCL cancels month-long cruises on Carnival Glory ship due to drydock-refurbishment
CCL-Carnival Cruise Line announced it is canceling a month of voyages aboard its Carnival Glory ship in the spring of 2024, due to drydock...
February 8, 2023
USCG aircrews conduct 2 medevacs from cruise ships (near Dominicana) to Puerto Rico
CG-Coast Guard aircrews medevaced a cruise passenger from RCI-Royal Caribbean's ship Symphony OTS on Monday, February 6th, and a second passenger...
February 8, 2023
Tropical cyclone forces Carnival Luminosa cruise ship to turn back to Brisbane (QLD Australia)
A Carnival Australia ship that left Brisbane (Queensland Australia) on Sunday, February 5th, for a 7-day Pacific voyage, turned back in an...
February 8, 2023
Small fire breaks out on RCI-Royal Caribbean's Icon OTS at Meyer Turku shipyard
Media outlets in Finland reported that a small fire had broken out on the next-largest cruise ship in the world, currently under construction at...
February 5, 2023
VIDEO: MSC Musica ship breaks off moorings at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
MSC Cruises' ship MSC Musica broke off her moorings at Port Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in the afternoon on February 3rd, when hit by a squall. The...
February 4, 2023
Fire breaks out on Viking Orion cruise ship docked in Sydney (NSW Australia)
Due to a small cabin fire, around 850 people (~600 passengers plus ~250 crew) were evacuated from a Viking Ocean Cruises ship docked at White Bay...
February 3, 2023
Further delays to the £70m Liverpool ferry terminal of the Manx government
Further delays to the GBP 70 million ferry port scheme of the Manx government in Liverpool UK are likely due to recent poor weather, according to the...
February 1, 2023
Data Bankruptcy to sell the last asset of the former operator Pullmantur Cruises
Pullmantur Cruises' bankruptcy administrator Data Bankruptcy intends to sell the last asset of the former operator. The administrator is expected to...
January 31, 2023
TUI UK cancels Marella Discovery 2 cruise ship’s upcoming Caribbean voyage due to technical issue
Marella Cruises' parent company TUI UK canceled Marella Discovery 2 ship’s upcoming voyage due to a technical issue in the catering facilities...
January 31, 2023
Auckland NZ ferry services disrupted due to mooring line failure on HAL's ship ms Noordam
Auckland ferry services were disrupted for an hour on Friday, January 27th, after a mooring line problem on the HAL-Holland America's cruise ship ms...
January 28, 2023
Seabourn cancels 3 cruises aboard its newest ship Venture due to emergency drydocking
The premium travel company Seabourn canceled 5 sailings of its newest ship Seabourn Venture which will be forced into unscheduled drydock for repairs...
January 27, 2023
57-year-old passenger medevaced from Royal Caribbean’s ship Allure OTS
A 57-year-old woman is in a hospital after the U.S. Coast Guard rescued her by flight from an RCI-Royal Caribbean cruise ship ~50 miles off Galveston...
January 26, 2023
NCLH-Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings reinstates synchronized muster drills on embarkation day
In spite of the current popularity of e-muster drills, which were implemented as part of the COVID protocols by all major lines, NCLH-Norwegian...
January 25, 2023
Oceania's Regatta and Regent's Seven Seas Explorer ships cancel scheduled calls to Port Burnie...
TasPorts announced that two international cruise ships scheduled to call at Port Burnie (Tasmania Australia) last week had bypassed/canceled their...
January 23, 2023
New MSC cruise ship Seascape suffers engine problems in the Caribbean
One of the main engines of MSC Seascape, which was officially christened in New York in December 2022, failed last week and only a reduced cruising...
January 23, 2023