Concluding today’s trio of HAL stories, John Heald continues his series of interviews with senior Carnival Corporation & plc executives with an interview with Holland America Line President & CEO Stein Kruse.
Mr. Kruse offers an interesting summary of his career with Norwegian America Cruises, Sea Goddess Cruises, Cunard, Seven Seas Cruise Line, Radisson Seven Seas [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Carnival Cruise Lines’
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
John Heald Interviews Stein Kruse
Monday, 9 July 2007
Bob Dickinson to Retire
Today came the surprise announcement that Carnival Cruise Lines‘ president and CEO, Bob Dickinson, will retire at the end of the year. (He will retain his seat on the Carnival Corporation & plc board of directors.) Carnival Corporation & plc executive vice president and CFO Gerry Cahill will replace Bob (everyone seems to call [...]
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Carnival Splendor to South America
Yesterday Carnival formally announced (”formally” as this news was already leaked last week on John Heald’s Blog) that it will position the new Carnival Splendor for a series of South America cruises from January 2009. This will mark the company’s first-ever South American itineraries, and the continuing transformation of the line from one based solely [...]
Monday, 2 July 2007
A Visit to Carnival Victory
Well, I’ve done it. After 15 years of sailing in and visiting cruise ships from just about every major line (and some, ahem, less major ones), I’ve finally made it aboard a Carnival ship. For a long time it had been a bit of an embarrassment to me that I had never been aboard a [...]
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
John Heald Interviews Carol Marlow
Carnival Cruise Lines‘ senior cruise director John Heald featured an interview with Cunard president and managing director Carol Marlow in his blog on Monday.
A key quote about the recently-announced retirement of Queen Elizabeth 2:
“…it was certainly a poignant day last Monday, but we all knew it would come one day and I and my colleagues [...]
