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Hamburg's Cruise Days on Saturday night featured a sound and light show on the Elbe which featured, music, lasers, a drone ballet, AIDAp...

AIDA is doing things a bit differently than most cruise lines. Their big, new AIDAprima is homeported at Hamburg, where it's cold in the...

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In case you haven't noticed, within the space of a couple of weeks, there are a lot of ships entering service, and each line is competin...

Some cruise lines name a ship and it’s rather businesslike and to the point. Others, well, they consider it a time of great celebration and ...

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AIDAprima might be setting a record for the longest delivery trip of a cruise ship as it sails from Japan to Germany. AIDA reports it has f...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries delivered AIDApima to AIDA on Sunday at Nagasaki. The ship is already on the way to Hamburg. The complete st...

CND subscribers also read about: AIDA announced that 13-year-old actress Emma Schweiger will be godmother of their new flagship, AIDAprima...

The Port of Rotterdam is proudly pointing out that this spring they will have three giant newbuilds call at the port fresh from the yard. In...

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has again notified AIDA they won’t be able to meet the delivery date for AIDAprima, and instead of entering serv...

Ships have several milestones when they are being built, such as the float out, or the installation of the funnel, but AIDA ships have anoth...

* A Star Is Born - or Christened Windstar Cruise sailed into a new era for the brand today when their new Star Pride was christened today in...

Carnival's German brand, AIDA, began releasing details yesterday of AIDAprima which will be delivered by Mitsubishi in March 2015. Some ...

* Lots New to See When Carnival’s German brand, AIDA, contracted for two 125,000-ton ships to be built at Mitsubishi in Japan, it was a sur...