Carnival Cruise Lines has unveiled details of the 130,000 GT, 3,646-berth Carnival Dream, which will enter service in September 2009. The new information sheds light on the company’s largest-ever ship, an evolution of a design that traces its origins back to Carnival Destiny of 1996 and also encompasses the Triumph-, Conquest- and Splendor-class ships. Carnival’s [...]
Congratulations to my friend John Heald, senior cruise director at Carnival Cruise Lines, for winning Seatrade Insider’s first annual Seagoing Employee of the Year Award!
I am sure most of you are familiar with John’s blog which is undoubtedly the busiest cruising blog on WordPress (I can only hope that I come in at a distant [...]
Carnival Corporation & plc and Orizonia Corporacíon, Spain’s largest travel company and the parent of Iberojet Cruceros, have announced that they have finalized the agreements to form Iberocruceros.
Iberocruceros is the replacement of Iberojet Cruceros and will be 75 percent owned by Carnival and 25 percent by Orizonia. The company’s initial three ships will be Iberojet’s [...]
Carnival’s John Heald has kept his blog busy with interviews with Princess CEO Alan Buckelew - continuing his series of Carnival Corporation & plc Presidents and CEOs - and Cunard Commodore Bernie Warner along with a visit to Queen Victoria at Fincantieri’s Marghera yard in Venice. While the ship is of course still unfinished, John [...]
John Heald has already interviewed his fair share of cruise line executives, but one thing I wasn’t expecting was an interview with the legendary Joe Farcus.
Personally much of Mr. Farcus’ work is not to my taste but there is no doubt that he’s a brilliant guy with an incredible imagination and quite an eye for [...]
