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Carnival UK shake-up pushes out Cunard and P&O bosses
TransportTwo of the best known figures in Britain’s cruise industry are about to abandon ship after a shake-up at Carnival UK, the home of the P&O Cruises and Cunard brands. Carol Marlow, P&O Cruises’ managing director, and Peter Shanks, the Cunard boss, will both disembark at the end of September. They are the victims of [...]
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River cruising challenges: Floods and rising waters
TransportSeveral cruise companies have had to cancel or change their river voyages, with widespread flooding still affecting large parts of Central Europe. Viking River Cruises has cancelled two cruises along the Elbe River due to sail tomorrow (June 8). It had previously cancelled three cruises along the Danube on June 8, 9 and 12. All [...]
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Concordia disaster turns into soap opera: Dancer sues captain and Costa
TransportThe Moldovan dancer seen dining with Captain Francesco Schettino the night the Costa Concordia ran aground is to seek damages from the captain and the ship’s parent company. Schettino, the captain of the luxury cruise liner, will go on trial in Grosseto on July 9 on several charges including multiple manslaughter and deserting the ship [...]
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Disney opens its theme park doors to speciality Starbucks coffee shops
TransportMore than a year after the Walt Disney Co. announced a deal with Starbucks Coffee Co. to bring the coffee retailer to its theme parks, signs of the collaboration have appeared in Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. A gold Starbucks’ logo is now featured on the window of the Main Street Bakery, and a second [...]
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Mediterranean island-hopping by ferry as a slow, savory travel experience
TransportBack in the times when international travel was measured in weeks, not hours, and it was easier to journey by sea than by land, the Mediterranean was not so much a barrier between Europe and Africa, Western Christianity and the Holy Land, as a highway. It connected buyers to sellers and seekers to oracles, sometimes [...]
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Carnival wants a new media agency to make cruisers forget about the last year
TransportCarnival has begun a media agency review as it attempts to reinvigorate its business after more than a year of mishaps. The review comes about year-and-a-half after a Carnival-owned Costa Cruise ship crashed on the coast of Italy and killed 32 people. Following that incident was the company’s notorious “poop cruise,” in which an engine [...]
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Cost of this week’s Royal Caribbean ship fire: So far it’s 10 cents per share
TransportRoyal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., the second U.S. cruise operator to cut short a voyage after a mishap at sea, said a fire this week on the company’s Grandeur of the Seas will reduce annual profit by 10 cents a share. Repair to the ship will take about six weeks, the world’s second-largest cruise operator said [...]
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All Royal Caribbean passengers return to U.S. safely after ship fire
TransportFor the second time this year, a fire at sea has aborted a cruise ship’s voyage. This time, aboard Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas and the ship’s 2,200 passengers were expected back in Baltimore on Tuesday after being flown on charter flights from the Bahamas. The fire that began at 2:50 a.m. Monday was [...]
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Fire disrupts sailing of Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas
TransportUPDATE: Following is Royal Caribbean’s statement on the fire, although the line has given no indication yet what cause it. “Unfortunately, the damage caused by the fire on Grandeur of the Seas will require us to cancel the rest of the voyage. We are currently working on making the necessary arrangements to return all guests to Baltimore, [...]
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It’s not just Carnival’s safety record: Management structure gets low marks too
TransportThe governance arrangements are also more familiar to U.S. investors and deficient from a U.K. perspective: The chairman and CEO roles of Carnival Corp. are combined, and the chief financial officer does not have a seat on the board. Micky Arison is, therefore, very much captain of the ship. The billionaire is the son of [...]
