The famous Romanian pop singer Loredana Groza, spent a short holiday with her daughter Elena, on the largest cruise ship in the world Harmony of the Seas. The artist has celebrated her birthday on board as a VIP guest on a short three days cruise departing from Barcelona, Spain. The star and her daughter Elena were enjoying promenade deck with dozens of shops and restaurants, Bionic Bar where cocktails are made and served by robots, a casino, discos, jazz clubs and karaoke and an outdoor amusement park.

Princess cruise ship passengers disembarking from Royal Princes in Piraeus, Athens were forced to walk all the way outside the Port in order to board the shuttle busses on temperatures up to 95 ºF. This unpleasant experience that no one will forget was due to port protests held on Saturday in the pier that didn’t allow shuttle busses to pick up the passengers and their luggage. Protesters of the Federation of Hellenic Port Workers prevented the busses to enter the pier and all crew members and the captain carried the luggage and assisted the angry passengers from 4 a.m.

Royal Caribbean International decided to cancel Harmony of the Seas arrival in Marseille, France scheduled for June 14, at the cruise terminal (MPCT) pier Léon-Gourret. The arrival in Marseille was canceled because of safety concerns by the culmination of the national protest against the Labor Law. 

Carnival Liberty returned to its homeport Galveston, Texas just hours after the cruise ship departed on Monday. The medical emergency alarm was sounded for a three-year-old girl who slipped through the stairs rail and fell two decks. The incident happened on deck 14 when the family was posing for a pictures by the rail when their toddler fell two decks bellow. The girl was quickly transferred to the ship medical center for assessment, and due to seriousness of the injury the decision was made by the ships doctor for emergency treatment on land.

One of the most famous names in Brazilian gastronomy, Chef Dudu Camargo was arrested last Saturday by the police in Singapore. He was accused of carrying fake US dollars in the Marina Bay Sands casino. Accompanied by his wife, the chef was on gastronomic tour in Asia for a month visiting different cities on a cruise ship. Dudu was arrested in time when he was paying his casino bill.

One of the most intelligent scientist in the world, Professor Stephen Hawking arrived on Sunday in Tenerife, Spain on a cruise ship. Stephen Hawking was welcomed on the pier in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where representatives of the Island authorities meet to welcome him. The renowned scientist arrived on the Island aboard the cruise ship P&O Britannia.

A 31 year old Jamaican chef, working onboard the cruise ship Celebrity Constellation was arrested by the Italian Police in Salerno for attempted murder. The 31 year old Jamaican crew member reportedly lost his temper after verbal argument with his supervisor, a 38 year-old Indian Head Chef. After the argument, the Jamaican with initials O.G. stabbed his supervisor in a stomach with a kitchen big knife.

Celebrity Infinity, struck one of the berths at the port of Ketchikan, Alaska, on Friday as the cruise ship was performing the docking maneuver. The incident happened on Friday at around 2:30 p.m. local time and according to the reports the ship tore off part of the platform and made a hole in its hull above the waterline. Luckily, the authorities on the dock noticed the approach was wrong and moved out of the way on time, but the ship still caused serious damage to the Berth Number 3. There are no injuries, but the damage is estimated between 2 and 3 million.

Carnival Elation experienced one-hour power outage at around 1:45 a.m. this morning, as the cruise ship was returning to its homeport Jacksonville. This caused the ship to arrive at 10:20 a.m. instead of scheduled arrival at 9:30 a.m. Some passengers in panic placed their lifejackets and headed to their muster stations. Carnival Cruise Line is reporting the outage as "short," and the situation was under control.

A dead fin whale was discovered on the bow of the Holland America cruise ship MS Zaandam early Sunday morning at around 5 a.m. just as the ship was preparing to dock in Seward. Investigators from NOAA and members of the Alaska SeaLife Center and Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network and were dispatched to the scene. It's too early to say if the whale was killed when struck by Zaandam or if was already dead when it became lodged on the cruise ship bow. Investigators will remove the whale and determinate the cause of the death and send it for a necropsy with a veterinary pathologist.