P&O's Pacific Explorer became the first cruise ship to return to Australia in more than two years. Sailing through Sydney Heads at about 9.30am before gliding into Circular Quay mid-morning with an escort of official vessels and Sydney ‘boaties’.
A 25-year-old French passenger in urgent need of medical treatment was airlifted by the Coast Guard rescue crew from the cruise ship MSC Grandiosa. The cruise ship was located about 20 nautical miles off the coast of Sant'Antioco, in southwestern Sardinia sailing a 7 Night Mediterranean cruise towards La Valletta, Malta when the medical evacuation took place.
After a 58-hour search covering over 2,078 square miles, the Coast Guard has made a difficult decision to suspend its search for a 43-year-old man who went overboard from the cruise ship Mardi Gras. Two Coast Guard cutters and an aircraft were searching for the man. The man was identified by the Coast Guard as Tang Tran. The report states that the man jumped overboard the Carnival cruise ship on Saturday, 55 miles off the Florida coast.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
