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LG Launches Cruise TVs Built to Withstand Salt and Humidity
Catena also lets passengers choose audio from a specific venue screen and listen through their own earbuds or headphones without a separate app.
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CBP Cancels 27 Cruise Crew Visas Over Child Exploitation Allegations
Passenger Dharmi Mehta filmed Disney Magic crew being escorted into CBP vehicles, prompting Union del Barrio and other groups to demand answers on May 5.
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Georgia Monitors Two Residents After Hantavirus Cruise Outbreak
The 107.6-meter Hondius departed Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1; the World Health Organization confirmed the cluster on May 4 after illnesses and deaths tied to the voyage.
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Mein Schiff 3 Returns to Service After Rotterdam Drydock
TUI Cruises replaced about twelve thousand five hundred square meters of carpet on Mein Schiff 3, with part of the removed material processed into recycled underlay for reuse onboard.
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Explora V Bow Section Launched at Palermo Shipyard
Plans call for fourteen decks and four hundred sixty-one suites, plus Mediterranean sailings to twenty-seven destinations in nine countries before a Middle East program.
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Pearl Seas Plans Four Great Lakes Itineraries for 2026
Pearl Seas has four Great Lakes itineraries planned, including a fourteen-night Great Lakes Explorer voyage from Toronto to Duluth across all five lakes.
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Hong Kong Targets More Cruise Turnarounds After 20% Growth
Kai Tak Cruise Terminal can berth two three-hundred-sixty-meter ships at once and process about three thousand passengers an hour. Ocean Terminal serves smaller ships.
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Global Cruise Ship Orderbook Climbs to $90 Billion
Princess’s three Voyager-class ships will be built at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone yard, the company’s largest shipbuilding facility by area and capacity.
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Viking Opens Bookings for 2028-29 Expedition Voyages
Into the Antarctic Circle crosses the sixty-six degrees thirty-three minutes latitude line, with Zodiac operations, kayaking among ice and guest scientific studies.
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Spain Takes In Hantavirus-Hit Hondius After Cape Verde Ruled Out
Oceanwide said 122 people were repatriated from Tenerife, with passengers grouped by nationality and taken ashore only when their evacuation flights were ready.
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Oceania Cruises Drops Non-Commissionable Fares on New Sailings
Oceania Aurelia’s program includes two one hundred eighty-day Around the World voyages, with reservations for previewed itineraries opening May 13.
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Coast Guard Evacuates Queen Elizabeth Passenger Near Shelter Cove
Queen Elizabeth’s crew requested help at eight fourteen in the morning; after a duty flight surgeon recommended evacuation, an MH-65 launched from Humboldt Bay.