Royal Caribbean
Galveston Tightens Oversight of Royal Caribbean Terminal Talks
Under the proposed Pier 14 arrangement, Royal Caribbean would build the terminal while Galveston would fill the adjacent slip and finance a passenger parking facility.
Port Development
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Port of Palm Beach Seeks Bids for $43 Million Cruise Expansion
Margaritaville at Sea Paradise has operated from Palm Beach since April 2022; the approximately 722-foot ship carries up to 1,680 passengers on Bahamas sailings.
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AROYA Brings 3,400 Tourists to Aqaba from Jeddah
The ship docked at eight in the morning and is due out at nine in the evening, with shuttle buses assigned for downtown Aqaba, Petra and Wadi Rum.
Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival Encounter Cuts Cairns Overnight Over Channel Depths
Prepaid second-day Cairns excursions will be moved to the first day where space allows; those that cannot be rescheduled will be refunded.
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Sanya Cruise Port Expansion Reaches 60% With April Target
Sanya Port Group owns the project, where crews have moved into superstructure work using an overhead launching gantry to place prefabricated box girders.
Norwegian Cruise Line
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Exits Daniel's Head Project in Bermuda
The eighteen-acre Sandys Parish site sits about six kilometers from Royal Naval Dockyard, a fifteen- to twenty-minute drive from the King's Wharf cruise terminal area.
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PortMiami Sets Cruise Record With 10 Million Passenger Movements
The 2025-26 season added ten ships to Miami's lineup, including Brilliant Lady and Norwegian Luna, while MSC Cruises' Terminal AA can process thirty-six thousand passengers daily.
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Busan Courts More Overnight Cruises With 24-Hour Terminal
The World began a three-day, two-night Busan visit on the 18th, with passengers taking part in evening activities including a nighttime drone show at Gwangalli Beach.
Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival Jubilee to Sail Short Mexico Cruises From Galveston in 2028
Four-day sailings depart selected Thursdays for Cozumel, while five-day cruises leave selected Saturdays and Mondays for Cozumel and Progreso.
Royal Caribbean
PortMiami Opens World's Largest Cruise Terminal for MSC
Terminal AA can process as many as thirty-six thousand passengers a day and has two operating berths, with infrastructure for three ships at once.
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Spitsbergen to Sail HX Expeditions’ First Scandinavia Program
The two hundred twenty-passenger Spitsbergen will run HX’s first dedicated Scandinavia program, including Gulf of Bothnia sailings in both directions.
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Five French Atlantic Ports to Pitch Cruise Options at Seatrade Med
Le Havre’s Verrazzano terminal upgrade is designed for three ships at once, with daily capacity for thirteen thousand five hundred passengers.