NCL has announced that Pride of Aloha will leave its US-flag NCL America fleet on 11 May 2008. The ship will be reflagged and will move to the Star Cruises fleet for cruising in Asia. (Star Cruises owns 50% of NCL.)
The 77,104 GT, 2,002-berth Pride of Aloha was built in 1999 as Norwegian Sky and [...]
Club Cruise subsidiary Van Gogh Cruise Line now has its own web site. As I reported last month, it is marketing the 15,402 GT, 503-berth Van Gogh in the UK following the collapse of charterer Travelscope. Van Gogh, built in 1975 as Gruziya, has been a popular ship in the budget segment of the UK [...]
Celebrity Cruises has unveiled the full line-up of restaurants that will be available on Celebrity Solstice, which is set to debut in December 2008.
Dining options will include the Grand Épernay, the ship’s main restaurant; the Tuscan Grille, a steakhouse; Silk Harvest, an Asian restaurant; Blu, the specialty restaurant for the ship’s AquaClass spa cabins (also [...]
Seatrade Insider reports that Peace Boat has chartered the 22,945 GT, 1,258-berth Clipper Pearl from International Shipping Partners. According to the report, the ship will be renamed Clipper Pacific and, following the refit she is currently undergoing in Turkey, will sail to Yokohama in May.
Although not stated in the report, this suggests that the ship [...]
All Leisure Group plc, parent of Swan Hellenic and Voyages of Discovery, continues to seek new tonnage. According to a statement by chairman Roger Allard in the company’s 2008 preliminary results, “…it is our intention to acquire by charter, lease or purchase more quality vessels to satisfy demand from the growing mature passenger cruise market.”
This [...]
