An Italian cruise ferry Excellent reportedly struck a gantry crane in Barcelona, Spain today, causing containers to fall to the pier and catch 
fire, according to the FleetMon tracking/maritime news website.
Written by maritime online journalist Mikhail Voytenko, the article states that the ferry accident may have been caused, presumably, by a combination of bad
In October of last year, a couple from Northern Florida went on a three-day cruise on the Carnival Fantasy out of Mobile. On the last evening of the cruise, to their shock and horror, they discovered a small video camera hidden in the bundled cables, behind the television in their cabin, which pointed toward their
Earlier this afternoon, a passenger aboard the Celebrity Constellation informed me that the Celebrity cruise ship broke its moorings in La Spezia, Italy due to torrential winds during a heavy rain storm.
https://www.facebook.com/crucerofun/videos/2204702716519737/
We were subsequently informed via Twitter that once the mooring lines broke, the Constellation struck the Costa Magica which was
On December 22, 2016, the Independence of the Seas was returning to Port Everglades with approximately 3,600 passengers who were enjoying the last night of a four-night Christmas cruise. Shortly before 2 a.m., when the Royal Caribbean cruise ship was around 33 miles southeast of Key Largo, a 22 year-old student, Nathan Skokan, cruising with
Mechanical problems are affecting the speed of the Carnival Victory cruise ship which departed yesterday from the port of Miami.
The Carnival cruise ship was supposed to sail from Miami to Key West arriving this morning around 7:30 a.m., and then sailing on to Cozumel, Mexico before returning to Miami in October 26, 2018.
However,
A passenger reportedly died following a fall aboard the Grand Classica cruise ship operated by the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line according to several sources.
WPTV in West Palm Beach reports that the Grand Classica contacted the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday evening when an unidentified passenger fell and was injured on the cruise ship after
According to ABC News in Australia, a cruise passenger was arrested after he tried to throw his partner overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas.
According to the Mercury newspaper, witnesses heard screaming followed by an emergency alarm.
The Daily Mail identified the cruise passenger as David James Fysh. According to the
A crew member reportedly went overboard from the Celebrity Reflection last night, according to a passenger on the cruise ship.
The Celebrity cruise ship was sailing from Mykonos, Greece to Rhodes, Greece.
The passenger posted comments about the incident on her Twitter page and also on Instagram:
The Celebrity Reflection cruise ship has returned to look for a crew member who went overboard last night. Waiting for coast guard. All ships in area searching sea. Sad. #manoverboard #celebrity
— Janis Cooley Leonard (she/her) (@leonardjan) October 17, 2018
Sad day on the ship. Crew member overboard last night. Raced full speed back this morning to engage in rescue efforts and released by coast guard after seven… https://t.co/o6vPq7HKF6
— Janis Cooley Leonard (she/her) (@leonardjan) October 17, 2018
The majority of crew members who
This past week, I received information from a reader of Cruise Law News who lives in Bergen Norway. He explained that the Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) is using drones equipped with measuring instruments to test sulphur levels in ship emissions.
There is an article in the Maritime Authority’s latest publication, Navigare, regarding this
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York alleged yesterday that a cruise passenger, identified in court papers as Carlos Batista Jr. of Elmhurst, New York, assaulted his girlfriend and choked her until she passed out during a cruise to the Bahamas.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office published a copy of a
A cruise ship captain is on trial in France on charges of violating pollution laws designed to address health concerns over air pollution caused by ferries and huge cruise ships. According to the Telegraph newspaper, France has charged U.S. captain Evans Hoyt, age 58, for breaking Europe’s air emission laws by authorizing the burning of
A United States District Court in Mobile, Alabama charged a Carnival cruise passenger with assault pursuant to a federal statute, 28 U.S.C. 113.
Jenetrice Williams of Birmingham, Alabama was taking a cruise on the Carnival Fantasy on August 19, 2018 when she allegedly “pulled a knife during an altercation with her boyfriend, Michael Carter.”
According
