The new president of the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA), Thomas Ostebo, unexpectedly left his new job amidst claims by CLIA that he departed for unexplained "personal reasons."
Mr. Ostebo retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as a rear admiral before joining CLIA. He joined CLIA with great fanfare.
CLIA Chairman and president of
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation contends that cruise lines have violated Alaska air pollution regulations for the past five years.
Tradewinds, a shipping trade organization, and the Juneau Empire report that Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruises disclosed in recent SEC earnings reports that they violated Alaskan Marine Vessel Visible Emission Standards.
The Bahama Mama cruise ferry, operated by Balearia Bahamas Express, recently failed a bi-annual sanitation and health inspection conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
I first read about the Bahama Mama flunking the CDC inspection in an article by Theresa Norton Masek in Travel Pulse titled Bahama Mama Ferry Fails CDC Inspection
the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an ill cruise ship passenger from the Carnival Fascination 40 miles east of the Sebastian Inlet in Florida on Sunday, according to Defense Imagery and Video Distribution Services.
The Coast Guard dispatched an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter which hoisted the 55-year-old passenger from the cruise ship and transported him to Holmes
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A number of news stations are reporting that the Maryland State Police sent a helicopter to medevac a cruise passenger from the Grandeur of the Seas in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Maryland police officers were notified by the Coast Guard Friday evening that a passenger onboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship needed to be taken
Defense Video and Imagery Distribution Services reports that the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a passenger from a Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) cruise ship near Turks and Caicos yesterday morning.
A Coast Guard crew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Clearwater, Florida, operating out of Great Inagua, Bahamas, flew to the NCL ship approximately 84 miles
The Grand Celebration suffered an electrical blackout yesterday which delayed its departure from the Port of Palm Beach to the Bahamas for over 6 hours.
WTPV-5 says that passengers complained that there was no electricity, water or air conditioning on the cruise ship and the toilets would not flush The television station interviewed one person
A newspaper in New Jersey reports that crew member Karan Seechurn was sentenced today to 13 months in jail for "abusive sexual contact."
Although federal prosecutors declined to identify the cruise line or cruise ship, the crime occurred on Royal Caribbean’s new cruise ship the Quantum of the Seas sailing from Bayonne, New Jersey last
The Royal Caribbean Blog announced yesterday that the renovation of the Liberty of the Seas this January will include the reconfiguration of the sports deck and the installation of water slides including a water slide called a "Boomerango."
The blog says that the "Boomerango will let guests ride in rafts, where they will "plummet down
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Yesterday, Royal Caribbean chairman Richard Fain sold 151,032 shares of his cruise line’s stock for $13,650,151 at an average price of $90.40 a share. President and Chief Operating Officer Adam Goldstein sold 4,184 shares at at $91.08 per share for a total value of $381,094.19. Royal Caribbean’s General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer Bradley Stein sold 2,402 shares
The Viking Star cruise ship operated by Viking Ocean Cruises is stuck in port in Tallinn, Estonia.
A person contacted us and wishes to keep her name anonymous.
The cruise ship lost power in an engine three days ago. Passengers are reportedly getting restless. Some of them are complaining that their 14 day cruise has
Defense Imagery and Video Distribution Services reports that yesterday the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an ill cruise passenger from the Carnival Miracle about 300 miles south of Point Loma, California.
Two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters crews dispatched from San Diego.
The 35 year old woman was suffering from abdominal problems. She was lifted into one of the
A reporter for the Marketplace interviewed me yesterday regarding the state of the cruise industry.
I explained that compared to a year or two ago, the general perception of cruise lines is up. More than 23,000,000 passengers will cruise this year. Bigger and bigger cruise ships are being constructed. Travel agents seem more energized than
KHON 2 reports that two Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) crew members were injured and hospitalized yesterday in an accident on the Pride of America.
The accident occurred when the NCL cruise ship was docked in Hilo.
The crew members, in their 30s, were reportedly lowering a lifeboat from the cruise ship when the cables broke.
The captain of the Freedom of the Seas, Captain Ron Holmes, I am told by crew members is a good man. He is well liked and respected by the crew, from what the shipboard employees tell me.
After the fire, Captain Holmes, via a closed circuit television loop, explains to the passengers what just happened.
A passenger on the Freedom of the Seas sent us a copy of the video that he took of the fire.
There are a couple of things to note.
First, as you can hear on the video, this passenger and his wife were on their balcony and had seen black smoke 15 minutes earlier. The
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According to a Greek newspaper, a cruise ship collided with a Greek Coast Guard today.
The Aegean Paradise and the Coast Guard vessel collided near Chios.
No injuries were reported in the collision.
The newspaper says that the collision was caused due to "misty conditions." The coast guard vessel, which was carrying 25 migrants, suffered
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A reader of Cruise Law News asked me last week what I thought of cruise lines sailing to Denmark’s Faroe Islands (sometimes called Faeroe Islands) where they slaughter pilot whales. I didn’t know anything about the issue, but I promised that I would look into it.
This weekend I read up on what I now
