Cruise News Daily Headlines for February 4, 2014

* Navigating into the Future
Navigator of the Seas is on its way back to Galveston today from the Grand Bahama Shipyard today after a month long stay in dry dock in which it underwent Royal Caribbean’s revitalization process.
   Usually we say that in the extensive refit, the ship receives versions of the line’s popular features found on its newest vessels. This time, however, Royal Caribbean did things a bit differently.
   Like other revitalized ships, Navigator did get new features found on new ships, but unlike others, Royal Caribbean added some new features not yet found on any other Royal Caribbean ship.

* Port Everglades Continues Upgrades
Port Everglades announced today that Cruise Terminal 4 will be modernized and expanded beginning this spring. It will be the sixth terminal in five years at the port to be reconfigured and expanded.

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Navigator of the Seas "properly attired" for its arrival in Texas.

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Cruise News Daily Headlines for February 3, 2014

* Costa Concordia Claims Another Life
A diver working on installing the sponsons on Costa Concordia to facilitate its removal, died as a result of injuries he sustained while working on the ship Saturday.

* Seems Like Old Times
Carnival Triumph experienced a short power outage last Friday as it was sailing from Cozumel to Galveston. Normally, we wouldn’t cover this, except Carnival Triumph was the first ship refitted with all the redundancies and so forth to keep emergency power up and running to prevent a repeat (or worse) of last year’s incident on that ship.

* Two Children Drown aboard Norwegian BreakawayA tragic incident was unfolding late this morning aboard Norwegian Breakaway as it was east of North Carolina as it was heading from New York to Port Canaveral.
   The medical team was called to the Pool Deck because two small children were pulled from one of the swimming pools and were unresponsive.
   CPR was administered by the ship’s medical team, and they were able to resuscitate the older child.

* Other Things You’ll Want to Know
CND subscribers also read about fog closing the Port of Houston on Saturday, keeping Caribbean Princess in port ... and Carnival setting a record during wave season.

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One last look at the Bud Light Hotel before it becomes Norwegian Getaway again.

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Costa Appoints New Sustainability and PR Director

Stefania Lallai Appointed Costa Cruises' New Sustainability and PR Director

Genoa – February 3, 2014 – Costa Cruises is pleased to announce that, with effect from February 3, Stefania Lallai has been appointed to the new position of Sustainability and PR Director, reporting directly to Costa Crociere S.p.A. Vice President Communication & Sustainability Hansjoerg Kunze.

“I am delighted at the arrival of Stefania, who is one of Italy’s leading sustainability experts, with extensive experience also in the areas of communication and corporate relations,” commented Costa Crociere S.p.A. Vice President Communication & Sustainability Hansjoerg Kunze. “Stefania will be in charge of developing socially sustainable strategies for the company and intensifying relations with our principal

Stefania Lallai, 47, joins Costa from TNT Express Italy, where she started in 2001 and received a series of promotions culminating in her appointment as Communication and Corporate Responsibility Director Italy, Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa. During her career she has managed all the main aspects of sustainability (i.e. social impact, environmental issues, voluntary work and charitable contributions). She was also a member of the working group for the listing of TNT N.V. in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the global stock index that measures the performance of leading companies in terms of their sustainability practices.


Source: Costa Crociere

Cruise News Daily Headlines for January 31, 2014

* Validation
It always makes you feel good when things work out right, especially when it’s a decision you made. That has to be the way they’re feeling at Princess tonight. The decision to bring Caribbean Princess home a day early to avoid the predicted fog is proving to be the right thing to have done.

* It’s Personal
Silversea has enhanced their website so that customers can log into it with a personal log-on, and that facilitates a host of services available through the portal.

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The latest view, taken this week, of Quantum of the Seas under construction at Meyer Werft

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Cruise News Daily Headlines for January 30, 2014

* Carnival Schedules Return to Baltimore
Well, that was fast. Last fall, Carnival Cruise Lines announced they would suspend their cruises from Baltimore indefinitely, beginning in the fall of 2014, due to the economics of operating in the new North American Emission Control Area. Today they announced a date for their return in the spring of 2015, essentially meaning they will only be out of the market for the winter 2014-2015 season.
   The will return with a ship with a lot of new features, one of them, making it possible to return to Baltimore.

* Caribbean Princess - Hurrying to Beat the Fog
Princess was faced with an interesting situation with regard to its turnaround at Houston this weekend.
   In the end, they decided that, due to predicted fog Saturday morning, Caribbean Princess would return to Houston a day early, arriving after midnight Friday morning. Unfortunately, the early return necessitated canceling the last port call in Belize. 
   Ah, but there's more to the decision than just the fog.

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Norwegian Getaway is currently in New York acting as the Bud Light Hotel.

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