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A recent Cheat Sheet article (found here in it's entirety) ranks the 7 'absolute worst' ports for cruise ship travelers to visit. Each port comes with it's own special mix of negative press -- and their well earned reputations for being downright unsafe for visitors are highlighted in the article....
A European newspaper, based on cruise industry measurements, estimates 40 million passengers will embark on cruise vacations within the next decade. Current estimates have over 27 million passengers traveling every year now. In 2008 about 18 million people traveled annually. Read the article here. The reason? Per the article, "worldwide,...
A very interesting article in the Miami New Times, Miami's Cruise Industry Gave $23,500 to Senator Who Stopped New Cruise Tax, details campaign contribution made to a Republican Senator who had had influence over bill amendments that would have taxed a portion of the cruise lines revenue. From the article......
Per WTKR News in Norfolk, VA a injured passenger was taken by the Coast Guard from the Viking Sky to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. According to the report, "watchstanders at the 5th Coast Guard District Command Center in Portsmouth were notified around 12:30 p.m. Monday that the woman had fallen...
As reported in the Irish Independent... Monday February 27, 2017 "The Dublin-based IT consultant in prison in Italy on suspicion of murdering his wife during a Mediterranean cruise believes she is still alive and is either in Dublin or her native China." Accused of murdering his wife, an Irish citizen...
A new website we found (new to us at least) is called CruiseMinus. You can find the website here. We've not validated all of the information on the website, but it seems to reflect past and current cruise ship accident news. From their website... "CruiseMinus reports major cruise ship accidents, latest...
The cruise line industry never lacks for media coverage...both positive and negative. Here, we highlight some of the headline grabbing news stories from the first 2 weeks of August related to cruise ship accidents, incidents and topical information. Saturday, August 13, 2016 -- Cruise ship hits 3 vessels in Boston...
Even for our law firm which helps passengers and crew members with legal issues related to cruise ship injuries and accidents, it can be difficult to stay current on all of the incidents that occur on cruise ships here in the U.S. and around the world. While our office receives...
Another interesting week has passed with the cruise line industry seeing a wide ranges of incidents across multiple cruise lines. Fire on a Royal Caribbean ship. Rape on a Celebrity Cruise. And a crew member on crew member sexual assault on another Celebrity vessel. Fire on Cruise Ship Freedom of...
MSC Cruises to Become First Mainstream Cruise Line to Base Cruise Ship in Havana, Cuba CruiseCritic.com reports that.... MSC Cruises will homeport MSC Opera in Havana, Cuba from the winter 2015-16 season -- the first mainstream cruise line to do so. The line will operate 16 Caribbean cruises on the...