Carnival Corporation: Multiple Initiatives Drive Efficiencies
Carnival Corporation is 10 percent below its all-time greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2011, despite having 30 percent more cruise capacity, said Vice Admiral Bill Burke, chief maritime officer. The company is so confident in its new ships and efficiency efforts for its fleet that it has moved up its carbon intensity reduction goal by…
Adora Leading the Way in Chinese Cruise Market
The Adora Magic City will homeport out of Shanghai for 2025 while the Adora Mediterranea will use a variety of turn ports next year, including Tianjin, Qingdao, Xiamen and Guangzhou. The company is the number one operator in China by capacity, with two ships cruising year-round and a third newbuild set to debut in early…
Princess: Food and Beverage ‘The Ultimate Experience’
Princess Cruises has been making significant enhancements to its dining options across the fleet while also introducing new culinary and beverage experiences aboard its newest ship, the Sun Princess, Sami Kohen, vice president of food and beverage, told Cruise Industry News. “These are unique times for Princess,” he said. “We are going above and beyond,…
Hong Kong’s Kai Tak: LNG Soon Available
The Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong will have LNG bunkering available starting early next year. “Worldwide Cruise Terminals (WCT) helped make this possible by extensive lobbying and conducting Hong Kong’s first quantitative risk assessment (QRA) for LNG bunkering in 2021,” said Jeff Bent, managing director of WCT, which runs the cruise terminal. In…
Virgin Voyages: Smooth Operations; Investing in Leaders
“Normally the day starts with troubleshooting,” said Captain Edward Perrin, vice president of marine operations at Virgin Voyages, who was monitoring potential protestors trying to disrupt cruise traffic in Amsterdam on a Tuesday morning in August. Overseeing the marine department, Perrin manages nautical matters, safety, security, environmental, policies and procedures and maritime compliance. “Every day…
Fincantieri Managing a Record Orderbook and The Future
“The cruise market has bounced back and with all the orders that have come recently, shipowners, especially startup ventures, may find it difficult to find available building slots,” said Luigi Matarazzo, general manager of the merchant ships division of Fincantieri. “We are very proud of our orderbook which this year added three new very large…
Viking’s Food and Beverage Formula
Viking Cruises seems to be on a steady course ahead for food and beverage, replicating its concept across 10 ships, and seemingly also for the next 10 ships. The formula for the fleet has two parts, traditional and Norwegian, with a personal touch by Viking’s founder and chairman Torstein Hagen. The traditional side features The…
TUI Cruises Pursuing Sustainability Innovations
When TUI Cruises introduced its newest ship, Mein Schiff 7, this summer, she became the first cruise ship to be methanol ready. Meanwhile, the ship is operating on low-emission marine diesel with a maximum 0.1 percent sulfur content, said Lucienne Damm, head of sustainability at TUI Cruises, and is equipped with catalytic converters for up…
Fortifying Cyber Security and Safety in the Cruise Industry
“We make sure we are doing everything we can to ensure that the company does not have a bad day from a cyberattack perspective,” said Devon Bryan, chief information security officer at Carnival Corporation. He said it was a matter of layering the right technologies, maturing supporting risk-based process and investing in the right people…
Marella: Cruise Business ‘Looking Good’
It’s going to be the biggest year ever for Marella Cruises, with over 350,000 guests expected across the company’s fleet of five ships, said Chris Hackney, managing director. TUI Group, which owns Marella, reported the cruise line’s second quarter occupancy at 99 percent, up from 95 percent a year ago. The daily rate per guest…
New Hardware For Blue Dream in China
Blue Dream is expanding, as the Blue Dream Melody sailed from Shanghai in early June as the company acquired the former AIDAvita this year and continues to build up in the Chinese market. “The goal for our first ship was to get started; the goal for the second ship is to differentiate,” said Helene Xu,…
Celestyal: Big Investments in Fleet and Product
“We have a renewed fleet. As of March, we are operating two new-to-the-brand vessels and have moved away from the older ships,” said Chris Theophilides, CEO of Celestyal. The company purchased the 1993-built Celestyal Journey, the former Ryndam, in March 2023, and started operations in September. That was followed by the 2003-built Celestyal Discovery, which…
Margaritas and Cheeseburgers Are Music to Their Ears
Few cruise lines launch with their brand so well established as Margaritaville at Sea. Built around the life and legend of musician Jimmy Buffett, the cruise line has plenty of material to draw from, including the successful land-based resorts, when building a culinary program its two ships, the Paradise and the fresh-from-drydock Islander, said Eric…
Lindblad: Defining Expedition Cruising
Lindblad Expeditions is offering a combination of new geographies and doing new things in places they have already been. “We have a new voyage from Nome via the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands to northern Japan and Hokkaido. While the voyage is new, the area is familiar,” explained Trey Byus, chief expedition officer for Lindblad Expeditions….
AIDA: ‘Pacesetter’
“We are the pacesetter in the German cruise market and intend to remain so, both in terms of product development and sustainability. And if you compare us to other brands, we have by far the youngest guests. The average age is 42,” Alexander Ewig, senior vice president of marketing and sales, told Cruise Industry News….