Port Canaveral Inks New Deal with Disney

Disney has three new ships (Triton-class) being delivered beginning in 2021 (through 2023), and a new long-term contract with Port Canaveral will have at least two of them homeported at the Central Florida port for their first five years in service.

The new contract will give Disney the exclusive use of their new upgraded terminal and the possible use of a second terminal. In return, the line is guaranteeing more passengers and paying increased fees.

The complete story appeared in the May 22 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

Other Things You'll Want to Know - March 19, 2019

CND subscribers also read about:

• Carnival Cruise Line and Port Canaveral broke ground on the new Terminal 3 which will be used by Carnival's Mardi Gras.
• Meyer Werft delayed the departure of Spectrum of the Seas' conveyance down the Ems River until Wednesday morning (local time in Germany) due to low water levels in the river. 
• There was a minor fire aboard Costa Smeralda in the Meyer-Turku yard on Monday afternoon.

Details were in the March 19 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Spectrum of the Seas beginning its departure from Meyer Werft. 

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Other Things You'll Want to Know - January 11, 2019

CND subscribers also read about:

• MSC finalizing plans at PortMiami
• Sniffing out drugs can be dangerous on the annual Holy Ship! charters

Details appeared in the January 11 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Other Things You'll Want to Know - November 2, 2018

CND subscribers also read about:

• Carnival Corp receiving three patents for the technology used in their Ocean Medallion program
• Port Canaveral achieving record passenger numbers

Details appeared in the November 2 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

Canaveral Approves Carnival Deal

The port authority at Port Canaveral has formally approved the agreement with Carnival Corp that will see the line build a new terminal (Terminal 3) at the port to accommodate its largest (180,000 tons) ship which will be powered by Liquified Natural Gas (LNG).

Details appeared in the August 29 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Cruise Terminal 3 and Port Canaveral

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Good News for Canaveral

Carnival Cruise Line had a double shot of good news for Port Canaveral today. They will be basing their 180,000-ton LNG-powered ship there when it is delivered 2020, and they are partnering with the port on a new state-of-the-art terminal to accommodate it. That will be necessary because it is Carnival's largest ship, with 5,286 lower berths.

Details appeared in the August 21 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

Port Canaveral Counting Chickens Again

With Disney planning to add three new large ships to their fleet annually beginning in 2021, Port Canaveral is believing at least one of them will be homeported at the Central Florida port.

That has sent the port into another round of studies of how to expand.

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

Port Canaveral Begins Work Toward New Cruise Terminal

The first phase of construction of a new $150 million cruise terminal at Port Canaveral has begun with the start of demolition work on Cruise Terminal 3, one of the port's oldest cruise terminals used for day cruises and vessels just making a port. The deconstruction of the present terminal is expected to be completed by July of this year.

It will be replaced with a new two-story, 188,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art cruise terminal able to accommodate 6,500 cruise passengers. Adjacent to the terminal will be a new parking garage with covered, secure parking space for approximately 1,800 vehicles.

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

Other Things You'll Want to Know - January 12, 2018

CND subscribers also read about:

• The NGV fetty Fantastic allided with Viking Cruises' Viking Star at Barcelona on Friday. 
• Norwegian Bliss will homeport at New York for the 2019/2020 winter season.
• 21 more passengers were arrested on drug-related charges while boarding Wednesday's sailing of Norwegian Epic.

Details appeared in the January 12 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Port Canaveral Plans to Keep on Growing

Port Canaveral made their 30-year master plan public this week. While it showed a lot of transformation for the port overall, at a time when most ports are concerned about keeping the cruise ships they have or planning for modest growth, possibly through accommodating larger ships, Port Canaveral is seeing a need for three new cruise terminals by 2030.

Details appeared in the October 18 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Port Canaveral Moves Forward

It shouldn't be much of a surprise that commissioners at Port Canaveral voted unanimously last week to move forward in building a new cruise terminal and parking ramp on the south side of the port on the site of the current Terminal 3. It will open in late 2019.

Details appeared in the July 5 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Port Canaveral Considering New Terminal

Once again, Port Canaveral is preparing to go down the path of building another new cruise terminal. At this week's board meeting, they are set to decide if they want to move forward with the first step in the bidding process, which is the first step in constructing the new buildings.

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

Remodeled Terminal 10 Ready to Open at Canaveral

Port Canaveral is having a record-breaking month. In the first two weeks, 35 cruise ships have visited the port. Those include ships both turning around, which are homeported there, and ships just on port-of-call stops.

This weekend the port is reopening Cruise Terminal 10 after an extensive expansion and renovation which enlarge it enough that it can handle Norwegian Epic, which made its debut at the port last week, and will be homeported there for the next two winter seasons.

Details appeared in the November 18 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Norwegian Returns to Canaveral with Norwegian Epic

Norwegian Epic arrived at Port Canaveral on Saturday for a winter season of Caribbean/Bahamas sailing that will run though March, but Norwegian has committed to bringing the ship back again in November. At 155,873 grt, Norwegian Epic is one of the largest and most feature-rich ship ever to homeport at Port Canaveral.

The complete story will appear in the November 14 edition of Cruise News Daily

Norwegian Epic at Port Canaveral

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Expanded Terminal Ready to Reopen

Port Canaveral’s Cruise Terminal 5 will reopen Saturday when Carnival Valor arrives, after a major ten-month expansion project to allow it to handle larger ships.

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

An Arrival and an Opening

When most restaurants open, they cut a ribbon. On Carnival Magic, they cut a six-foot sandwich, bursting with pulled pork (perhaps more appropriate for Washington).

Carnival was in full Carnival mode at Port Canaveral today. The event was staged to welcome Carnival Magic to Port Canaveral and note Carnival’s expansion at the port. Prior to its arrival, the ship underwent a dry dock which added a number of new features to the ship, including a new Carnival restaurant, Guy’s Pig & Anchor Bar-B-Que Smokehouse, designed by Food Network celebrity chef Guy Fieri.

But in some ways this seems like it might represent nearing the end of an era. In other ways, it may represent the start of a new one.

The complete story appeared in the April 20 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

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Port Canaveral Readies for More Passengers

Port Canaveral wants to handle more passengers, but this time not by building an additional cruise terminal, but rather by renovating two of the terminals they already have.

On Wednesday, port commissioners approved a $90 million financing package that will allow the port to renovate two cruise terminals to handle larger ships (which they already have booked) and more passengers, and to build a new parking ramp to accommodate the additional passengers.

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

Canaveral Six-Pack

Sunday was a history-making day at Port Canaveral. It was the first time the cruise port had ever hosted six large ships at once.

The complete story appeared in the February 16 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Cruise News Daily Headlines for November 26, 2014

* The Rules of the Game Are Changing
Next month Port Canaveral will open a new cruise terminal which they needed to urgently build due to two newly contracted ship coming to the port. Last week a consultant hired by the port to study their future needs reported to them that he believes the port will need to build three more cruise terminals in the next 25 years.
   Port officials feel wonderful because if you believe the consultant, cruise lines will be lined up to come to Port Canaveral.
   There are three important factors which weren’t mentioned, however. If they were considered, it may well have changed the finding that the port will need more terminals or at least tempered it.

* Other Things You’ll Want to Know
CND subscribers also read about it being that time of year again in Tampa ... and O'Sheehan's is open for business.

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

The new O'Sheehan's Neighborhood Bar & Grill aboard Norwegian Gem

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Cruise News Daily Headlines for November 5, 2014

* And Her Name is Regal
The original cast of “The Love Boat” christened Regal Princess tonight at Port Everglades. Prior to the ceremony, Princess created a fun tribute to the TV show which has been tied so closely to Princess Cruises by inviting its most frequent “passengers” to join in the celebration and recall their experiences on the show. It was like a Who’s Who of ‘70's television.
   The ceremony itself paid tribute to the 50 years of Princess Cruises. When “The Love Boat” stars pulled the lever, it released 50 bottles of champagne to break against the hull of the ship, and then the fifty-first bottle was released on the Pool Deck to break just below the godparents.
   There was just one small hitch. The bottle on the Pool Deck didn’t break, but everyone was having so much fun, it was like no one even noticed amid the rest of the celebration.
   We’ll have a full report in Thursday’s edition of CND.

* Another US Warning
The US State Depart issued another warning to US citizens in the Bahamas this week. They are again warning of the rising level of violent crime in and around Nassau.
   None of the incidents have involved cruise passengers, nor are they necessarily targeting Americans, but they are in the areas tourists frequent and have become bolder and more violent and in broad daylight.

* New Terminal Delayed
Florida Today is reporting that Port Canaveral’s new cruise terminal will be delayed in opening by a month due to construction delays.
   The new Terminal 1 is now scheduled to open on December 27.

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

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