Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and German tourism and shipping conglomerate TUI AG have announced that they will form a new German cruise line, TUI Cruises, as a joint venture.
This follows on the dissolution of a proposed joint venture between TUI and Carnival Corporation & plc, which would have incorporated both the new brand and Carnival’s [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘German Cruising’
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Royal Caribbean and TUI to Form Joint Venture, TUI Cruises
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Maxim Gorkiy Departure Confirmed
Phoenix Reisen has confirmed that Maxim Gorkiy will leave its fleet in November 2008. A statement in the November 2007 issue of the company newsletter, Phoenix-Journal, is as follows (translated from German):
“This winter the ‘Maxim’, as we and countless regular guests call her, will be in Hamburg for the last time under the Phoenix flag. [...]
Friday, 23 November 2007
Phoenix Reisen to Retire Maxim Gorkiy
Strong reports from Germany indicate that Phoenix Reisen has canceled Maxim Gorkiy’s 2009 world cruise and that she will finish her last cruise for the company on 30 November 2008.
One of the most popular German-market cruise ships, the 24,220 GT, 650 passenger Maxim Gorkiy, built as the Hamburg in 1969, is one of the last [...]
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
Classic International Cruises Acquires Ocean Monarch
Luís Miguel Correia reports on his blog Ships & The Sea that Classic International Cruises has acquired the 15,833 GT, 432-berth Ocean Monarch from Majestic International Cruises. (Recently she has operated for a related company, Monarch Classic Cruises.) The ship will reportedly be renamed Princess Daphne. CIC already owns her sister, Princess Danae. (The sisters [...]
Monday, 17 September 2007
Maxim Gorkiy: Living History on ShipParade
This month ShipParade’s Bart de Boer takes a look at a ship after my own heart: Phoenix Reisen’s 24,220 GT, 650-passenger Maxim Gorkiy. Originally built in 1969 as Deutsche Atlantik Linie’s Hamburg and dubbed “The Space Ship” both for her distinctive flying-saucer styled funnel as well as her exceptionally spacious interiors, the ship took on [...]
