The P & O Oriana has made it back safely to the Port of Miami last night after a fire broke out on the ship.
Viewers following the PTZ / Port of Miami webcam heard radio communication between the ship and the Coast Guard that a fire had allegedly broken out on the ship involving
This afternoon an online webcam and marine tracking websites showed the Regal Princess cruise ship entering the Port of Miami for what people on social media were describing as unspecified medical emergencies involving two passengers. Local TV stations covered the story with helicopters. I covered the incident on my Facebook page involving the gay "30th Anniversary Caribbean
I’ve written thousands of articles here on Cruise Law News about all type of issues – cruise ship air pollution, cruise waste discharge, mistreatment of crew employees and the cruise industry’s exploitation of the Caribbean ports of call all the while cruise executives pocket obscene amounts of money.
But one of the issues that I rarely write
According to the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA), more cruise passengers have sailed in Florida and around the world than ever before.
Last year, the number of passengers taking cruises on North American cruise lines increased approximately nearly 4 percent to 17,600,000.
6,150,000 passengers sailed from Florida, an increase of 1.3 percent to 6.15 million
Local Miami news station WSVN channel 7 reports this morning that Miami Fire Rescue medevaced a Royal Caribbean cruise ship passenger who sustained a serious head injury. The medevaced occurred last night.
The medical evacuation occurred on the Majesty of the Seas cruise ship. WSVN says that the passenger suffered the injury while the cruise
International soccer star David Beckham plans to build a soccer stadium at the Port of Miami with the dramatic vista of downtown Miami in the background. But the Chairman of Royal Caribbean Cruises is doing everything possible to block Beckham’s plans.
In an interview with television station Local 10, cruise executive Richard Fain says that
Last month, 247,433 people read 843,370 pages of Cruise Law News (per Google Analytics). That’s a record month for us.
If our readership continues to grow, as it has done over the years, we are on track to having 3,000,000 people reading over 10,000,000 pages of our blog a year.
Our blog is currently the
Last year at Cruise Shipping Miami, all of the cruise CEO’s talking at the "State of the Cruise Industry" presentation covered the CLIA talking points that cruising was "safe" and the cruise industry is also supposedly "highly regulated."
The hyperbole was extraordinary.
CLIA’s Christine Duffy began the cheerleading by first announcing that the Carnival Triumph
Cruise Shipping Miami (“CSM 2014”) has officially started.
Formerly known as “Seatrade,” CSM is a huge trade show in the Miami Beach Convention Center with all types of cruise vendors, tourism delegates and port representatives. You can appreciate just how dynamic and wealthy the cruise industry is by attending the show.
Here’s the official schedule
The cruise industry promotes the safety and security of cruising by telling the public that all luggage is carefully x-rayed before being loaded onto cruise ships.
Post 9/11, the concern that terrorists may target cruise ships led to the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code which requires that all cruise