MSC Seascape's opening season in the U.S and Caribbean, ceremony will be held December 7, 2022 in the heart of New York City at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal and godmother Sophia Loren will name her 18th MSC Cruises ship.

After completing its inaugural season in the Caribbean the world’s largest cruise ship Wonder of the Seas, set sail from Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Wednesday, April 20, to the Mediterranean.

Ambassador Cruise Line, the brand-new cruise operator in Britain in over ten years, celebrated the christening of its first cruise ship Ambience with the godmother Sally Gunnell OBE.

TUI Cruises has made a decision to cancel all cruises in South Africa for the following season, affecting scheduled voyages of the Mein Schiff 3. The first voyage affected by the cancelations is 11-Night cruise from Mallorca to Tenerife on October 23, 2022. These cancelations run through the entire season, until March 3, 2023, when Mein Schiff 3 was scheduled to start the repositioning cruise from Cape Town to Gran Canaria.

Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas had an unfortunate accident in the Bahamas, the cruise ship was hit by the cargo vessel Tropic Freedom. According to passengers onboard, Tropic Freedom came alongside the harbor’s edge at speed, hit the concrete edge of the dock, and then lodged itself into Mariner of the Seas, which caused a lot of noise and shook the vessel.

MSC Cruises today announced the latest world cruise abroad the MSC Poesia scheduled for 2024. MSC Poesia will start the 121-day journey on January 4th, from Civitavecchia with option of boarding from Genoa on January 5th, for an unforgettable journey that includes 52 destinations in 31 different countries.

Carnival Corporation & plc announced today that Renata Ribeiro, senior vice president of strategic operations, takes the lead of global port & destination development and legendary Giora Israel remains active, transitioning to new role advising leadership team.

Margaritaville at Sea has announced that the new offshore resort ship named Margaritaville at Sea Paradise is heading to wet dock where it will be redesigned. 

Brazilian law enforcement agencies have arrested six drug smugglers and confiscated about 30 kilos of cocaine at the port of Santos. The drug traffickers, five Brazilians and one Argentinian national, were arrested at the terminal, attempting to board the cruise ship Costa Diadema as it was preparing for a Transatlantic cruise to Europe.

Russia's aggression against Ukraine has been going on for 55 days, sad and difficult situations has hit the country, and imagine how it is for the Ukrainian crew members who are on cruise ships and cannot fly home.