Last week, Holland America Line took delivery of its newest ship, the 86,273 GT, 2,104-berth Eurodam. Beginning today (27 June) the ship is in Southampton for a series of introductory events. On Sunday, 29 June she’ll sail to her home port of Rotterdam where there will be more festivities, culminating on her naming by HM [...]
Yesterday I enjoyed a lovely visit and luncheon aboard Holland America Line’s Veendam. The 55,758 gross ton, 1,266-passenger Veendam was built in 1996 as the last of the four Statendam-class ships, following sisters Statendam (1993), Maasdam (1993) and Ryndam (1994). The first ships built for HAL after the company was acquired by Carnival Corporation and [...]
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 [...]
Last week Holland America Line took the wraps off the brand-new Eurodam News Blog. As its name suggests, the new blog follows the construction of HAL’s latest ship, Eurodam, set to debut in July 2008. I was thrilled to see that HAL decided to put me in the blogroll (that list of links down the [...]
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, I don’t need to tell you that I’m a huge fan of Bart de Boer and his site ShipParade, which I’ve read from its very first issue. In his latest issue Bart cruises aboard one of my favorite modern ships, Holland America Line’s flagship Rotterdam. I’m glad [...]
