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Miami based Victory Cruise Lines will travel north with smaller boats, visiting smaller cities. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "With the cruising industry booming across the globe, officials in Duluth are betting that someday soon their ships will come in, too. In hopes of establishing the Lake Superior port city...
Marketwatch.com reports: "Royal Caribbean International, the world’s second largest cruise line by number of passengers, will no longer allow travelers to bring their emotional support animals with them aboard its ships, effective immediately, a cruise industry blog first reported Tuesday. If passengers made reservations to sail with emotional support animals...
Rockland, Maine residents to decide fate of 'large cruise ships' in local harbor? According to a news report in the Portland (ME) Press Herald, "The Rockland City Council may schedule a November advisory referendum on whether to impose a ban on large cruise ships." Residents and business owners within the...
Volcanic eruptions Kilauea, the most active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, have done little to stop cruise ships from making scheduled stops. Apparently, the lovely islands of Hawaii are "open for business." Per a May 8 (and updated May 9) report on TravelPulse.com, "The Island of Hawaii Visitors Bureau told...
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...