New Ship for the Yangtze

Sanctuary Cruising is putting a new small luxury ship into China next year and is targeting UK tour operators to sell the product.
The company and Orient Cruises are spending £6 million to refit the 124-passenger vessel in preparation for its first voyage on the Yangtze River in April 2008.
Yangzi Explorer will feature luxury suites and [...]

HP Indigo Press On Cruise Ship

Digital People has installed an HP Indigo press 1050 on board Ocean Village’s informal cruise ship, Ocean Village Two. The digital press replaces a two-colour litho press for the production of menus, schedules, welcome packs and the ship’s on-board newspaper. The HP Indigo press 1050 will give greater flexibility and enable an even wider range [...]

Hidden object cause of Spirit of Nantucket grounding

VIRGINIA BEACH
Crews will try today to remove a large object from the Intracoastal Waterway that they suspect is responsible for slicing open the hull of a cruise ship Thursday.
Authorities don’t know whether the debris - possibly a cluster of sunken pilings - cut the foot-long hole in the hull of the Spirit of Nantucket. [...]

SeaDream revamps website!

SeaDream revamps website
SeaDream Yacht Club has designed a new website featuring video clips and e-cards.
The site at http://www.seadream.com has been overhauled to make it more contemporary and easy to use, according to UK senior director Ian Buckeridge.
“The site is eye-catching, informative and entertaining – depicting electronically the SeaDream experience and reinforcing to the travel trade [...]

So you want to have your own ship?

Here’s a link to a ship simulator program, for all you budding Captains!
http://www.portsofcall.de/
Enjoy

Want to be a cruise ships godmother?

San Francisco Chronicle
In the ultimate convergence (or collision) of cruise and pop trends, Norwegian Cruise Line plans to pick the godmother for its newest ship based on a YouTube-style video posted at the ship’s personal blog.
Yes, the ship, Norwegian Gem, has its own blogger site.
The cruise line is inviting past and current passengers to submit [...]

Diamond giveaway!

In celebration of its 60th year of cruising in 2008, Costa is giving one lucky guest a beautiful six-stone diamond necklace from Diamonds International on every sailing departing from Ft. Lauderdale during its 2007-2008 Caribbean season. Each week, a winner will be randomly selected and presented with a necklace from the Captain on the last [...]

NCL Norwalk Virus

HONOLULU — Norwegian Cruise Line said about a sixth of the 2,500 passengers onboard its Pride Of Hawaii cruise ship became sick this week.The passengers fell ill with the stomach flu after leaving Honolulu Harbor Monday.NCL said it is telling its passengers booked on its next cruise about the outbreak so they have the option [...]