Cruise
Captain Kate McCue is resigning from Four Seasons Yachts to prioritize family but will set sail as a guest and keep her license active. Famous Cruise Ship Captain Suddenly Resigns in Favor of Family
Disney Cruise Line has moved up construction timelines for upcoming ships and will now debut three new ships in 2029. Disney Cruise Line Is About to Do Something It Has Never Done in 2029
Port Canaveral has shared details about the renovation and expansion for Cruise Terminal 10, expected to be finished in November 2027. Port Canaveral Begins $95 Million Cruise Terminal Expansion and Renovation
Star Flyer is a four-masted barquentine cruise ship operated by Star Clippers Ltd of Sweden and built by Scheepswerven van Langerbrugge in Belgium. A luxury vessel and sister ship to Star Clipper, it originally sailed under the Luxembourg flag before transitioning to the Maltese
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Newbuilds expand Med Marine Turkish towage fleet. Maritime Sustainability News
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On this day in 1942, US Marines landed on Guadalcanal, transported by a fleet that included former passenger liners converted to troopships.
General Shipping
The Panama Canal Authority reported that it is lowering the maximum draft for the largest vessels transiting the canal as it works to stay ahead of th...
The nearly daily attacks on Ukraine’s seaports and commercial shipping are continuing, with reports that two more vessels were struck and at least one...
Sentinel-2c satellite imagery taken on August 5 off the northern tip of Oman’s Musandam Peninsula shows the extent of damage inflicted on shipping and...
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has unveiled a first look of its new Great Tides Waterpark, which will open on its private island in The Bahamas, Great Stirrup Cay, on 4 September 2026. Covering nearly six acres, Great Tides will be NCL’s biggest waterpark and comprise 19 slides. “With just one month until the grand opening of Great Tides Waterpark, we’re excited to give guests a first look at what will become one of the Caribbean’s most dynamic destination experiences that can only be en
Silverstream has passed 160 vessel installations of its air lubrication system, with 14 cruise ships currently in service using the technology and a further five under construction. Air lubrication works by generating a carpet of microbubbles across the underside of a ship's hull, reducing frictional resistance between the hull and water and cutting fuel consumption and emissions as a result. Silverstream’s system has accumulated more than 180,000 operating hours on installed cruise vessel
In a historic move, Carnival Cruise Line has appointed Daniela Gargiulo as the cruise line's first-ever female Staff Captain. Carnival Cruise Line Appoints Its First-Ever Female Staff Captain
Captain Kate McCue is resigning from Four Seasons Yachts to prioritize family but will set sail as a guest and keep her license active. Famous Cruise Ship Captain Suddenly Resigns in Favor of Family
Disney Cruise Line has moved up construction timelines for upcoming ships and will now debut three new ships in 2029. Disney Cruise Line Is About to Do Something It Has Never Done in 2029
A shipyard in Turkey has build a series of harbour tugboats to RAmparts 2500-W design for its own fleet and stock
On Thursday, Iranian-backed Houthi forces launched attacks on the Saudi border city of Najran and the Yemeni government stronghold at Marib, part of a...
The U.S. Navy has once again reorganized its unmanned-systems division in a drive for speed of delivery, the latest in a long line of attempts to acqu...
Germany’s energy giant RWE and the Trump administration have reached a settlement agreement that calls for the Department of the Interior to pay RWE $...
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report on the collision of the Chinese bulker Yangze 7 and the towboat Miss Peggy, which cap...
The Portuguese Judicial Police are reporting one of the country’s largest ever drug seizures completed aboard a Hong Kong-flagged containership while...