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How is the cruise sector emerging from the worst downturn for generations? Industry insiders David Dingle, Michael Bayley, Pierfrancesco Vago and Carolyn Spencer Brown share with World Cruise Industry Review their analyses of current operations and future trends.
Adam Goldstein, president and CEO of Royal Caribbean International, talks to Christopher Kanal about a pivotal few...
With cruise lines coming out of the downturn and in good health, the drive to expand their itineraries has seen the...
Ports are struggling to keep up with the cracking pace of growth set by the global cruise industry, especially in...
Having weathered the worst of the economic storms of the last 18 months, the cruise industry is focusing on growth and...
Orla O’Sullivan talks to Peter Fetten, SVP of refits of Carnival Corporation, about the challenge of refitting ships...
While many operators are looking to overhaul their design strategies and introduce innovative on-board features, the...
With Asia opening up to cruise lines, the push to offer new destinations is seeing China become a potential giant of...
Orla O’Sullivan talks to Kevin Douglas, vice-president of technical projects, newbuilds, for Royal Caribbean Cruise...
Norwegian Cruise Lines has had to overcome many challenges in the building of its first ‘mega-class’ vessel.
As the lead design team on the Oasis of the Seas, Wilson Butler Architects was a key creative force behind the ship’s...
The cruise industry has been given more time to meet Alaska’s high wastewater discharge standards, but is the new...
Cruise lines have kept on course through the downturn, but the industry’s suppliers have had a tougher time.
The last months of 2009 will see the launch of RCI’s 225,000t Oasis of the Seas. The facilities on Oasis of the Seas will top anything that has gone before. Harri Kulovaara, executive vice-president of maritime for Royal Caribbean Cruises, describes the challenges of producing this industry landmark.
Richard Vogel, chief executive of TUI Cruises, tell us about the operator’s first vessel, Mein Schiff, the result of a €50m transformation of Celebrity’s Galaxy. Vogel tells WCIR about TUI Cruises’ plans for the future in the wake of the financial slowdown.
Europe remains a hub of shipbuilding despite the downturn. When Costa’s Luminosa entered service earlier this year, it was the latest example of the cruise line’s envious production rate, but as Fincantieri chief designer Maurizio Cergol tells us, it represented the challenge of meeting innovation with practical requirements.
