Princess Cruises has come a step closer to the completion of its new Sky Princess behemoth with the launch of the 143,700-gross ton cruise liner’s bow section.
Sky Princess nears completion with bow section launch
MSC Cruises offers exclusive deals for Cruise Arabia & Africa readers
MSC Cruises has revealed a number of cruise deals for its roundtrip Dubai cruises in the Arabian Gulf exclusively for Cruise Arabia & Africa readers.
Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 Cape Town cruise injected R2.2-million into SA economy
Queen Mary 2, the flagship of the Cunard fleet and the world’s greatest ocean liner and one of the largest passenger ships in the world, did a turnaround in Cape Town last […]
P&O Cruises to expand again with second 5,200-guest ship due in 2022
Due in 2022, the as-yet un-named cruise ship will be 180,000-gross tons and have a passenger capacity of 5,200, a full 1,000 more than P&O’s current largest cruise ship Britannia.
Four best cruise ships coming from Carnival Corporation in 2018
Carnival Corporation, the owner of 11 of the world’s top cruise lines, and the largest cruise company in the world, is on a newbuild spree at the moment, with 19 new cruise […]
MSC Cruises targets Celebrity with MSC Lirica Dubai cruise deployment for 2019
MSC Cruises is making a play for Celebrity Cruises’ market share in the Dubai cruise market, with plans to send its recently refitted MSC Lirica to Dubai for the 2018/19 Middle East cruise […]
VAT introduction in UAE expected to have no impact on Middle East cruise market
Cruise market in UAE exempt from value added tax (VAT) and therefore Dubai cruise demand wont be affected, says leading Middle East cruise representative.
Cruise Industry: What the media consistently get wrong about cruise ships and bad weather
The mass media loose their s#$t whenever a cruise ship encounters a wave, forgetting that bad weather, and especially unpredictable weather, is what the ocean has been known for, for centuries. Sometimes […]
Crystal Symphony first cruise ship to use redeveloped Cape Town Cruise Terminal
Crystal Symphony departed on her 2018 World Cruise on January 7th from Cape Town, marking not only the first time that a world cruise of this magnitude has departed from the Mother […]
South African Immigration punishes elderly cruise tourists for its own incompetence
South African immigration officials have banned an elderly British couple from entering the country for five years, after it was found that their passports had don’t been stamped upon their last exit […]