Guaranteeing Space

The headline is that Costa Crociere is buying a 33.3% interest in a shipyard in Marseille. But it gets much more interesting than just an investment in a going business.

The complete story appeared in the August 2 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Cruise News Daily Headlines for September 20, 2013

* Crossing the Ocean Has Changed
It used to be at the beginning or end of the European season, cruise lines had to get their ships to or from the Caribbean, so they create the fastest itineraries possible, with a minimal number of ports, they’d price the sailings very low to attract people to spend money onboard, and get them across the ocean as fast as they could so they’d be back on an itinerary where they could start making money again.

Not anymore. Times have changed, and repositioning cruises are sought after. Now Royal Caribbean is now even branding their trans-ocean repositioning cruises.


* Other Things You’ll Want to Know
CND subscribers also read about a busy weekend in Venice ... major growth in Marseille ... and What Else?

The complete articles appeared in the e-mail edition of Cruise News Daily delivered to our subscribers.

Seven Seas Voyager Cancellation, MSC Poesia's Perfect Score, Strike in Marseilles, Ted Koppel Speaks, the Rest of the Story on QM2

CND subscribers also read about Regent Seven Seas Voyager being disabled in Greece ... a perfect score in Canada for MSC Poesia ... labor strikes causing trouble getting to the port in Marseilles ... Ted Koppel joins the list of speakers aboard Seabourn Sojourn's 2011 world cruise ... and there's more to the story than you've probably heard about the prominent couple asked to disembark from Cunard's Queen Mary 2.


Details of these items appeared in the "Other Things You'll Want to Know" column in the October 4, 2010 edition of Cruise News Daily.