China Floats Second Large Domestically-Built Cruise Ship

Published Apr 28, 2025 1:48 PM by The Maritime Executive

China’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., part of CSSC, marked the floatout of its second, large domestically-built cr...

Cruise Ship Boom Fuels New Records for Port Canaveral

Published Apr 24, 2025 6:33 PM by The Maritime Executive

The continuing strong growth in the cruise ship industry has helped Florida’s Port Canaveral to set new records in its cur...

Published Apr 22, 2025 6:12 PM by The Maritime Executive

An explosion and fire aboard the coastal cruise ship Ocean Navigator in October 2023 was likely caused by not following maintenanc...

Published Apr 21, 2025 12:30 PM by The Maritime Executive

The new Disney Cruise Line cruise ship Disney Adventure (208,000 gross tons) was floated out on Saturday, April 19, in Wismar, G...

Published Apr 20, 2025 10:21 PM by Tony Munoz

It started small, like all great ventures, with a single sightseeing boat on the Connecticut River in 1970, and grew fro...

Published Apr 17, 2025 1:41 PM by Harry Valentine

Trump’s tariffs have elicited a backlash from Canadian tourists, who now choose to visit domestic attractions. The...

Published Apr 16, 2025 8:33 PM by The Maritime Executive

A federal judge has sentenced a Michigan teenager to eight months in prison for calling in a bomb threat to Carnival Cru...

Published Apr 14, 2025 5:31 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Japanese cruise market is growing rapidly demonstrated by the delivery last week of the largest cruise ship, and the first i...

Published Apr 13, 2025 11:38 PM by Tom Peters

At the eastern end of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on the island of Cape Breton sits the small port of Sydney. B...

Published Apr 10, 2025 12:21 AM by The Maritime Executive

MSC Cruises celebrated the entry of the MSC World America, one of the largest cruise ships in the world, into service wi...