Swan Hellenic has been forced to cancel its first cruise with its once and future ship, Minerva, due to unexpected generator difficulties. The eight-night Norwegian Fjords cruise was scheduled to depart from Dover on Friday 23 May, returning on Saturday, 31 May and was scheduled to call at Bergen, Flam, Ulvik, Stavanger and Kristiansand. The [...]
The past week has looked rather grim for Dutch-based operator Club Cruise. First came the news that Van Gogh Cruise Line, the British subsidiary set up to market its 15,240 GT, 727-berth Van Gogh following the bankruptcy of charterer Travelscope, would cease operations. (It had previously cancelled its summer 2008 cruises in favor of a [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
