Cruise Center reports news from Italy that a judge in Italy sentenced three 3 people who were involved in smuggling cocaine on an Italian flagged cruise ship to ten year individual sentences and a fine each of 60,000 Euros for importing ten kilos of cocaine from South America on the cruise ship Armonia operated by MSC.
Carnival Drops Tortola
Carnival Cruise Lines is dropping the British Virgin Islands port of Tortola next year.
Carnival intended to send five cruise ships to Tortola through April 2015.
The port is overhauling its cruise ship dock, and passengers may be required to tender from the ship to shore, Carnival spokeswoman Jennifer de la Cruz said.
The Carnival
Carnival Abandons Norfolk
The Carnival Glory made its last home port stop today in Norfolk. It’s now heading here to Miami.
According to the Washington Post, Carnival said this summer that it would not deploy the Glory (or any other Carnival cruise ship) from Norfolk in 2014.
According to ABC-13, Carnival cited new environmental regulations on emissions (requiring
Cruise Industry Retains Retired Coast Guard Rear Admirals to Repair Battered Image
Travel Weekly recently published an article titled "Lax Regulations of Cruise Lines is a Myth."
I’m used to reading articles from Travel Weekly which lean over backwards to be nice to the cruise lines. After all, Travel Weekly is a travel magazine which caters to people who love to cruise and travel around
Fire on HAL’s Noordam
A member of Cruise Critic reports that a "small fire" broke out on Holland America Lines’ Noordam cruise ship on Friday, October 26th.
JavaJunkie comments on the Cruise Critic member forum that while sailing on the Noordam, passengers had a bit of excitement two mornings ago:
"Shortly after 10:30am, one of the ship’s alarms sounded
Carnival Cruise Compensation: The Rich Get Richer
Travel Weekly and Skift recently reported that the new CEO of Carnival Corporation, Arnold Donald, will receive the following in compensation:
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$1 million base salary to start, with reviews by the board of directors to increase or decrease his salary;
A fixed bonus of $1.125 million for 2013;
A one-time award of performance-based restricted stock
Royal Caribbean President Sells Stock
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News sources report that Royal Caribbean President Adam Goldstein sold 7,855 shares of RCL stock on the open market in a transaction yesterday.
Goldstein’s sold the stock at an average price of $43.22, for a total value of $339,493.10.
He reportedly now directly owns 335,654 shares of Royal Caribbean stock, valued at approximately $14,506,966.
Yesterday
Supersize Cruise Craze: “Too Big to Sail? Cruise Ships Face Scrutiny”
This weekend, the New York Times published an article about the "supersize craze" – the increasingly large cruise ships being built by the major cruise lines which are "worrying safety experts, lawmakers and regulators."
The article quotes my hero- Jim Hall, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTBS): “Cruise ships operate in a
Cruise CEO Arnold Donald’s First Blunder: Carnival Guts Crew Retirement Benefits
Last month, the Sun Sentinel reported that Carnival’s earnings "continue to be hurt by a series of embarrassing mishaps and softened demand for certain cruises that has kept fares low." The world’s largest cruise operator reported a 30 percent drop in third-quarter profits.
Critics have attributed Carnival’s woes to damage to its namesake cruise line’s
Globalization at Work? Royal Caribbean’s U.K. Call Center Outsourced to Guatemala
Cruise line loyalty to employees seems like it’s at an all-time low.
Yesterday we reported that Carnival Cruise Lines unceremoniously ended its retirement benefit program for its crew members on its 24 cruise ships, leaving them feeling shocked and betrayed.
There is always a cheaper way of doing things, isn’t there?
It seems like many
Human Remains at Costa Concordia Shipwreck Identified as Missing Italian Passenger Maria Trecarichi
International news sources are reporting that remains located at the ship wreck of the Costa Concordia are of an Italian woman, an Italian prosecutor said.
"The human remains belong to Maria Grazia Trecarichi," prosecutor Francesco Verusio said.
Newspapers quote Trecarichi’s widower Elio Vincenzi saying:
"I have learned from the press that the remains belong to
Why was the Thomson Dream Sailing in Circles?
A reader of cruise expert Professor Ross Klein’s website raised an interesting question why a AIS chart of the Thomson Dream cruise ship (via marinetraffic.com) showed the ship sailing in a weird pattern.
The experts I have discussed this with don’t think that the pattern resembles one to be taken if the ship were conducting a
A Comment from a Former Crew Member: “So Many Injustices”
Cruise Law News from time to time will feature a comment to our articles by one of our readers.
Comments by crew members are often poignant. The cruise industry’s current state of affairs places tremendous pressure on ship employees from Carnival, Royal Caribbean and other cruise lines. Hours are longer notwithstanding the lofty goals of
Lawsuit: Couple on Carnival Triumph Endured “Deplorable, Unsafe & Unsanitary Conditions,” But They Weren’t on the Cruise Ship!
It’s hard to develop a reputation worse than Carnival Cruise Lines these days but a lawyer in Houston may have accomplished that feat.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Houston lawyer John Bruster Loyd filed a lawsuit against Carnival Cruise Lines on behalf of a couple in Texas.
He alleged that they had been
Coast Guard Medevacs Carnival Passenger with Broken Legs
A local news station in Broward County reports that the U.S. Coast Guard has medevaced a seriously injured passenger from an unidentified Carnival cruise ship today.
The woman, who sustained injuries to both of her legs, was hoisted onto a Coast Guard helicopter and flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach.
The news
Coast Guard Medevacs Sick Passenger From Carnival Splendor
A news station in Norfolk Virginia reports that the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an ill passengers from a Carnival cruise ship near Norfolk to a local hospital today.
The news station states that this morning at around 10:45 A.M., the Carnival Splendor cruise ship contacted the Coast Guard regarding a 57-year-old woman who required medical
Carnival Cruises Lines Terminates Crew Member Retirement Benefits
Cruise Law News has received inquiries from several Carnival Cruise Lines crew members complaining that the cruise line recently terminated the retirement benefits for crew members.
Like many other cruise lines, Carnival Cruise Lines previously offered a small retirement benefit which crew members were eligible to receive for working a number of years of uninterrupted
“Strip Search” Lawsuit: Court Denies Carnival’s Motion to Sanction Teenager for Telling Lies
A federal judge denied Carnival Cruise Lines’ motion to punish a teenager who admitted that she lied when claiming that the cruise ship’s security personnel forced her to remove her tampon in a search for marijuana.
Courthouse News Service reports that one of Carnival’s security officers noticed that a 17-year-old passenger on Sensation cruise