Carnival Unveils Sleek Design for New Barcelona Terminal

In the planning since 2015, Carnival Corp unveiled the designs for their newest cruise terminal at Barcelona yesterday. It will be the second terminal the company has built and operated at Barcelona.

The terminal, which is scheduled to open next year, is designed specifically to service Carnival's next generation of ships which will be fully powered by liquified natural gas (LNG).

The complete story appeared in the April 28 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

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Holland America Begins Seattle's Alaska Cruise Season

This weekend will open the Alaska cruise season at the Port of Seattle when Holland America ships begin arriving for their summer duties.

It kicks off on Saturday (April 29) when Eurodam arrives for the first of 22 round trip seven-night cruises to Alaska.

Details appeared in the April 28 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Princess Has Lots for non-Australians Down Under

Princess Cruises has opened their 2018-2019 Australian programs for sale worldwide. The programs are created for the locally-sourced market, but for non-Australians they offer some more unusual itinerary options than programs by other lines that were created for Americans.

Princess already announced that Majestic Princess would come south for the northern winter (Austral summer), and now Princess has detailed the rest of the four-ship program.

The complete story appeared in the April 27 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Other Things You'll Want to Know - April 27, 2017

CND subscribers also read about:

• Meyer Werft delivering Norwegian Joy
• Holland America Line's new Navigator app
• AIDA taking delivery of AIDAperla from Mitsubishi
• Carnival Fantasy finding a man floating in the ocean and then losing him again

Details appeared in the April 27 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Royal Caribbean Sets 2018-2019 Asian Programs & Quantum Ultra Deployment

On Wednesday, Royal Caribbean announced their 2018-2019 program for Asia and the Pacific, meaning primarily China, Singapore and Australia.

At the same time they announced that their first next-generation Quantum-class ship, called the Quantum Ultra-class, will join her two sister Quantum-class ships in China in early 2019.

The complete story appeared in the April 26 edition of Cruise News Daily.