Louis Cruise Lines‘ parent, Louis plc, has announced that it has sold two of its oldest ships, the 10,487 GT, 628-berth Princesa Marissa and the 14,173 GT, 507-berth Serenade (pictured above), for a combined price of $8.4 million. Both ships are expected to go for scrap. The company also completed the purchase of the 37,773 [...]
Louis Cruise Lines parent Louis plc has purchased the 50,764 GT, 1,742-berth Norwegian Dream and 40,876 GT, 1,462-berth Norwegian Majesty from Star Cruises for $218 million and $162 million respectively. Both ships are currently chartered by Star to Norwegian Cruise Line, in which Star has a 50% interest, and Louis will charter them back [...]
While I was away in France, Maritime Matters‘ Peter Knego was blogging from Monarch Classic Cruises’ Blue Monarch and Golden Star Cruises’ Aegean Two (on charter from Louis Cruise Lines) in Greece.
Click here to read about Peter’s latest Aegean adventures.
Today Cruise Critic launched my corporate profile of Louis Cruise Lines, the fifth-biggest cruise operator in the world and yet one that seems to get very little media coverage.
You can read the article here.
Seatrade Insider reports that Opera (ex Silja Opera, SuperStar Taurus, Leeward, Sally Albatross) is on her way from Tilbury, London, where she’s been laid-up, to Piraeus where she will undergo ‘rearrangements of some of the public areas’ before entering service for Louis Cruise Lines.
The ship will operate three- and four-night Greek Isles cruises, replacing the [...]
