Steep Princess fine for whale kill
ANCHORAGE 30 January – Princess Cruises will pay $750,000 following the 2001 death of an endangered humpback whale in the vicinity of a Dawn Princess Alaskan cruise. According to court documents...
View ArticleNYK Cruises in fire response exercise
TOKYO 31 January – NYK Cruises, the wholly-owned cruise subsidiary of NYK Line, has carried out a severe accident response training exercise last week involving its Japan-flagged liner Asuka II. The 25...
View ArticleCruise 'Wave Season' worries grow
MIAMI 05 February – Surprisingly strong 4Q06 results for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd (RCCL) are being overshadowed by booking weakness this year. Commenting on the 1Q "Wave Season", when a...
View ArticleGermany cruises towards 1M mark
BRUSSELS 07 February – The German cruise market, which has suffered a long period of weakness, has started to grow in the wake of German economic recovery, and the market could generate one million...
View ArticleUS Congress reconsiders Marpol VI
WASHINGTON, DC 07 February – Legislation to implement Marpol Annex VI in the US was re-introduced yesterday in Congress and appears headed for speedy approval. The measure, which died in the last...
View ArticleMSC Napoli salvage interrupted
LYME BAY 07 February – Salvors working to remove containers from the beached MSC Napoli on the UK south coast have relocated the shuttle barge back to Portland port ahead of poorer weather and bigger...
View ArticleEuro cruise 'now worth $10.75Bn'
BRUSSELS 06 February – European cruise tourism is currently valued at €8.3Bn ($10.75Bn) in direct expenditure, according to figures released by the European Cruise Council. The expectation is for that...
View ArticleCarnival Corporation & Plc and Iberojet Sign Letter of Intent to Form Joint...
New Company will Expand Iberojet's Existing Cruise Business, Serve Rapidly Growing Spanish MarketMIAMI, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the...
View ArticleSpain: Grounding prompts comms query
MADRID 08 February – Spain’s Ministry of Public Works has launched an enquiry into the absence of recordings of conversations held between the captain of the grounded reefer vessel Sierra Nava and the...
View ArticleOrizonia ingresa 240 M € por aportar sus barcos a la joint venture con...
HOSTELTUR • 09-02-2007“No se trata de una operación de compra y venta, sino de un proyecto en común para crecer en el mercado español de los cruceros”, aseguró el consejero delegado de Orizonia,...
View ArticleCruise port security 'not as good as airports'
BRUSSELS 09 February – The events of 9/11 led to a sharp increase in awareness of potential security risks at cruise ports, but there is still room for improvement, according to Paolo Costa, chairman...
View ArticleEuropean cruise market up for grabs
BRUSSELS 09 February – A few more cruise ships orders are likely to be placed soon as there are still slots available at yards for delivery in 2010, according to Pier Luigi Foschi, CEO of Costa...
View ArticleRice barge hits Carnival's Fantasy
NEW ORLEANS 12 February – Carnival Cruise Lines’ Fantasy is undergoing repairs today to mend a 10-m gash sustained in a collision with a barge on Saturday as the vessel was on its final homeward leg up...
View ArticleCruising embraces NY winter
NEW YORK 15 February – Cruise lines are hiking winter sailings from New York to the Caribbean, with Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 the latest entrant. Today Cunard announced a new series of 14 NY-homeported...
View ArticleBig Easy suffers setback
NEW ORLEANS 16 February – Carnival Corp is delaying its second deployment to New Orleans because of weak demand. The 2,758-passenger Carnival Triumph was originally slated to join the Fantasy in New...
View ArticleFertiliser cargo fire off Galicia
LA CORUNA 19 February– Spanish maritime safety agency Salvamento Maritimo is evacuating the eight remaining crew members of the stricken Antigua and Barbuda-flagged cargo ship Ostedijk, before an...
View ArticleCarnival Dumps Costa Rica After Pax Attacked
Interesting post in cruisecritic.comCarnival Passenger Defends Cruisers from Armed RobberOn Cruise Critic's boards, a thread called "Who Thinks Carnival Should Dump Costa Rica?" was prescient. ABC News...
View ArticleDisney doubles cruise play
LAKE BUENA VISTA 23 February – Disney Cruise Line is finally expanding its fleet with two new post-Panamaxes after six growth-free years. Parent Walt Disney Company has signed a letter of intent with...
View ArticleDisney to build at Meyer Werft
DISNEY Cruise Line has signed a letter of intent to build two 122,000-gt, 2,500-passenger cruise ships at Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany. Delivery will be in 2011 and 2012, with operations likely to...
View ArticleHapag-Lloyd mulls cruise ship order
HAPAG-Lloyd in Germany is rumoured to be negotiating two 120-m long polar expedition cruise ships with domestic shipyard Meyer Werft.
View ArticleN ueva página web del Instituto de la Ingeniería de España
Hoy se presenta en sociedad la nueva web del Instituto de la Ingeniería de España (IIE - www.iies.es).También se presentan en sociedad los nuevos Comités del mismo, entre ellos el Comité Internacional...
View ArticleConferencia: El inicio profesional del Ingeniero Naval en la Organización...
El Ingeniero Naval Rubén Pulido impartió el pasado 27 de noviembre en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Navales y Oceánicos de Madrid la conferencia titulada “El inicio profesional del...
View ArticleRequisitos que habilitan para el ejercicio de la profesión de Ingeniero Naval...
Se publica hoy en el BOE la Orden CIN/354/2009, de 9 de febrero, por la que se establecen los requisitos para la verificación de los títulos universitarios oficiales que habiliten para el ejercicio de...
View ArticleIMO SG Mitropoulos urges Nigerian Government to act on piracy
IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos has urged the Government of Nigeria to intervene to help reduce the incidence of acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships in the Gulf of Guinea and...
View ArticleIMO International Maritime Organization Piracy Guide - Guia sobre la...
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has a new information resource on piracy (full text, pdf, 375 KB). The document includes references to key IMO Assembly resolutions, as well as other IMO...
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