Cruise news (Royal Caribbean-tagged)
- Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean to improve USVI's ports
RCG-Royal Caribbean Group announced it had reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the USVI/ Virgin Islands. The deal is expected to...
September 30, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean's ship Spectrum of the Seas to sail from Singapore beginning October 21, 2022
RCI-Royal Caribbean International announced that Spectrum of the Seas would sail a series of 3- to 9-night roundtrip itineraries from homeport...
September 29, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean Group to build and operate new cruise terminal in Port Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna Port Authority has been awarded the tender for the building of a new cruise ship terminal and the concession of its cruise operations in...
September 23, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Wonder of the Seas with inaugural season in Caribbean & Mediterranean instead of China
RCI-Royal Caribbean announced that the largest cruise ship in the world, Wonder of the Seas, will debut in the United States and Europe. The highly...
September 16, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas returns to service from New York (Cape Liberty Bayonne NJ)
Following a 17-month pause, RCI-Royal Caribbean's cruise liner Oasis of the Seas returned to service. The first post-COVID commercial voyage...
September 6, 2021 - Accidents
COVID-positive vaccinated passenger medevaced from Royal Caribbean’s ship Harmony of the Seas
A COVID-positive elderly passenger was medevaced from RCI-Royal Caribbean's ship Harmony of the Seas, which docked at Port La Spezia Italy at 3...
September 5, 2021 - Accidents
48 firefighters extinguish a fire on Royal Caribbean's cruise ship Wonder of the Seas
A fire broke out around 11:15 PM (Paris time/UTC 1:15 AM), on Saturday, August 28, aboard RCI-Royal Caribbean's ship Wonder of the Seas and...
August 30, 2021 - Cruise Industry
VIDEO: Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas (world's ever-largest cruise ship) completes sea trials
RCI-Royal Caribbean's newest liner Wonder of the Seas (world's ever-largest cruise ship) returned to St-Nazaire France - at Chantiers de l...
August 30, 2021 - Cruise Industry
DCL-Disney Cruise Line requires passengers sailing to Bahamas get COVID vaccine
DCL-Disney Cruise Line will start requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for passengers from the USA boarding ships to The Bahamas in September, the...
August 26, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Cruise ships return to Manhattan (NYC New York) in late September
Cruise liners are expected to restart in Manhattan, known regionally as the City (the most densely populated of the 5 boroughs of New York City) in...
August 24, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas departs on test cruise from Cape Liberty (NYC)
On Sunday, August 22, RCI-Royal Caribbean's ship Oasis of the Seas set sail on a 6-night test cruise from Cape Liberty in Bayonne, New Jersey-NYC...
August 24, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean changes vaccine policy to comply with The Bahamas' new COVID rules
RCCL-Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines advised it had changed its vaccine policy for passengers 12+ sailing on Royal Caribbean voyages departing from...
August 23, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Port of Southampton England boasts 2 consecutive 5-ship weekends during August
The Port of Southampton England UK had its busiest month of the year to date for cruises, with a pair of consecutive 5 cruise ship weekends during...
August 21, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Sitka Sound Cruise Terminal's Phase 1 dock expansion completed (partnership with RCG-Royal...
On August 17, the Southeast Alaskan community of Sitka (Baranof Island) welcomed one of RCI-Royal Caribbean’s largest ships - Ovation of the...
August 20, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Construction started on RCI-Royal Caribbean’s new US$125 million cruise terminal
Port Galveston Texas - currently ranked North America's 4th largest cruise port, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on August 14, to mark the beginning...
August 18, 2021