Cruise news (money-tagged)
- Cruise Industry
GPH-Global Ports Holding sells Port Akdeniz-Antalya to QTerminals
The world's largest independent cruise port operator - Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH) - announced that following a period of exclusive negotiations...
October 23, 2020 - Cruise Industry
VIDEO: P&O Pacific Dawn is Ocean Builders' Crypto Cruise Ship MS Satoshi
The company that constructs “floating, off-grid seapod homes” - Ocean Builders, has bought the old Australian cruise ship Pacific Dawn...
October 14, 2020 - Cruise Industry
Royal Caribbean Group to raise US$1 billion in new capital
RCG-Royal Caribbean Group unveiled plans on Tuesday, October 13, to raise US$1 billion in new capital, the latest effort by a cruise ship operator to...
October 14, 2020 - Cruise Industry
Genting Hong Kong gets EUR 193 million from Germany's government
GHK-Genting Hong Kong, the biggest cruise operator in Asia, is to get EUR 193 million (USD 227 million) from the government of Germany for its German...
October 8, 2020 - Cruise Industry
UK Cruise Industry develops new COVID-19 Framework for operators
The UK Chamber of Shipping (UK's trade association for passenger and cargo shipping industry) worked closely with the cruise shipping industry for 6...
October 6, 2020 - Cruise Industry
France provides EUR 30 Million to aid ferry companies
France's Government will reimburse EUR 30 million (USD 35,5 million) in payroll costs to French ferry shipping companies that were severely hit by...
September 17, 2020 - Cruise Industry
Contract awarded for two Brisbane ferry terminals
Brisbane City Council awarded a USD 25 million contract to a single supplier to construct a ferry terminal at Howard Smith Wharves as well as upgrade...
September 14, 2020 - Cruise Industry
CLIA-Cruise Lines International Association releases Environmental Technologies and Practices...
CLIA-Cruise Lines International Association released the Global Cruise Industry Environmental Technologies and Practices Report produced by Oxford...
September 11, 2020 - Cruise Industry
Carnival Corporation orders Revolution Series Digesters for $400,000
BioHiTech Global Inc received USD 400,000 in new food waste digester purchase orders for its "Revolution Series Digesters" from the world’s...
September 9, 2020 - Cruise Industry
Miami-Dade County borrows from Wall Street to fund PortMiami cruise terminal projects
Miami-Dade County is currently looking to borrow from Wall Street in order to fund its cruise ship terminal projects at PortMiami Florida. On Monday...
September 2, 2020 - Cruise Industry
Tom Cruise hires GBP 0,5 million Hurtigruten cruise ship for Mission Impossible 7 crew
Tom Cruise has rented an entire cruise ship in order to prevent any more filming delays to his next "Mission: Impossible 7" movie production. The...
September 2, 2020 - Cruise Industry
Private investors interested in a GHK-Genting Hong Kong cruise brand
GHK-Genting Hong Kong Ltd (Hong Kong China-based holding company that operates cruise, shipbuilding and resort businesses) had received indicative...
August 31, 2020 - Cruise Industry
Lindblad Expeditions to enhance financial flexibility by raising $85 Million
Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. reported that it had entered into an agreement with a group of investors including MSD Partners, Durable Capital...
August 29, 2020 - Accidents
Genting Hong Kong Ltd. suspends all payments to creditors
Hong Kong-based Genting Cruise Lines (controlled by the Malaysian-Chinese billionaire Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay) on August 20 suspended all payments to...
August 25, 2020 - Cruise Industry
Cruise industry's pause results in $23-billion loss to Florida's economy
All major cruise shipping companies are facing financial struggles amid the ongoing pandemic. All river and ocean voyages have been paused since mid...
August 14, 2020