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AIDA Opens Bookings for 2027 Festival Cruise From Hamburg
The lineup and starting fare remain undisclosed, while the program is planned around live acts spanning hip-hop, electronic dance music, pop and Schlager.
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Regent Seven Seas Sets First Elemis Wellness Voyage for 2027
The Elemis sailing departs August 21, 2027, from Trieste to Barcelona, with BeMoved classes, mindfulness enrichment and Blue Zone-inspired culinary menus.
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Douglas Mawson Makes Maiden Caen Call During D-Day Events
A new Colombelles swing bridge scheduled for summer 2027 would provide a forty-meter navigable width, allowing ships up to one hundred eighty-five meters long to reach the port.
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Celebrity Cruises Deploys Eight Ships in Europe for Summer 2026
Celebrity Xcel, which entered service in late 2025, is sailing its first Mediterranean and Atlantic summer with seven- to eleven-night cruises from Barcelona and Piraeus.
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MV Gemini Arrested in Greece Over Miray Cruises Debts
Bureau Veritas lists Gemini’s certificates as suspended as of May because a survey was overdue, while Equasis identifies its Cameroon registry as a false flag.
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Santorini Limits Athinios Cruise Disembarkation to 30%
At Ormos Fira, passengers reach the clifftop town by cable car or a stairway of roughly six hundred steps; the harbor has no direct road access.
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Miami Warns of Port Traffic as Eight Ships, FIFA Festival Overlap
The free festival runs through July 5 at Bayfront Park, near the west end of Port Boulevard, with first-day gates expected to open before 2 p.m.
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Cunard Opens Sweepstakes for Queen Mary 2’s 450th Atlantic Crossing
The prize package also covers flights, hotel accommodations in Southampton and transportation to and from the port, with entries open through July 31, 2026.
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Royal Caribbean’s Seventh Oasis-Class Ship Enters Assembly
Currently identified as B35, the unnamed 236,900-gross-ton newbuild will join a class that began with Oasis of the Seas in 2009 and includes Utopia of the Seas.
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Fincantieri Delivers LNG-Ready Mein Schiff Flow to TUI Cruises
The ship can carry three thousand nine hundred eighty-four passengers and has a heat-processing system that converts organic waste into recyclable material.
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Aurora Expeditions' U.S. Bookings Rise 37% for Antarctic Season
Aurora said the season was its largest Antarctic program to date, spanning thirty voyages and an estimated eight hundred nineteen landings. North American travelers accounted for one in three expeditioners.
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Port of Skagen to Build 16 MW Shore Power Facility for Cruise Ships
At quay nine, an energy-chain system will be built into the berth so ships connect through electric cable management, keeping long high-voltage cables off the quay.