This year’s annual Seatrade Cruise Global exposition in Miami Beach is ending today. This week, attendees listened to the cruise trade show’s keynote presentation titled “The State of the Global Cruise Industry.” The panelists who addressed the theme of the presentation – “Resilience and the Restart” – included Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) President and
Cruise Executives Declare Victory Over COVID-19 At Annual Seatrade Cruise Convention As Hundreds of Passengers Continue to be Infected With COVID-19 on Cruise Ships Operated by Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean and NCL
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Yesterday, I attended the annual Seatrade Global conference in Fort Lauderdale. In the morning, the "state of the industry” featured the usual cruise tycoons extolling on the billion dollar cruise industry. Carnival Corporation’s CEO Arnold Donald, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings CEO Frank Del Rio, MSC Cruises Executive Chairman Pierfrancesco Vago, and Royal Caribbean Cruises CEO.jpg)
It’s 11:25 AM Tuesday morning. I’m sitting here in the 4th row at the Miami Beach Convention Center listening to the final moments of the Cruise Shipping Miami (CSM 2013) State-of-the-Industry speeches by the cruise line executives.
This week I attended “Cruise Shipping Miami” – formerly known as “SeaTrade” – at the cavernous Miami Beach Convention Center. An intern at the firm, Caitlin Burke, also made her first appearance at the convention. Caitlin wrote a senior thesis at the University of Florida entitled “