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More than a million cruise passengers have passed through Port Tampa Bay in a year for the first time in history. When the day ended on Mond...

At the completion of its Alaskan season in 2019, Carnival has announced that Carnival Legend will go to Tampa rather than returning to Austr...

In case you didn't have your calendar marked, today was the day Carnival's first ever cruise sailed to Cuba, and probably by the tim...

Royal Caribbean International today detailed the initial limited program the Cuban government approved for their cruises to the island natio...

Carnival Corp brands will continue to operate from Port Tampa Bay for another five years. The port last week signed an agreement with the wo...

Carnival will upgrade their programs in two key markets, one on each side of the country, in early 2018. The moves will expand Carnival...

Cruisers wanting a short cruise sailing from Tampa will now have a couple of new options as Carnival has added two new itineraries to Carniv...

Yesterday we told you about Norwegian Jewel leaving the North American market for the winter 2017/2018 season when it goes to Australia. Hav...

The Port of Tampa has been closed all day due to fog. It didn’t open until about 6pm, and Carnival Paradise, which had been waiting at sea a...

Who doesn’t like to spend the winter in Florida - even cruise ships. That’s why when Carnival needed a ship to spend part of the winter in T...

According to federal authorities, some Norwegian Cruise Line crew members stuff more than socks in their underwear. Five of them were arrest...

* 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 tw...

* Carnival Has Lots of New Ways to Tie the Knot More than 2,600 couples say, “I do,” on Carnival cruises each year. With Carnival’s revampe...

* Have They Considered Lowering the Channel? There’s been a lot of talk lately about the Port of Tampa creating a new cruise ship port on th...

* RCI Increases Capacity at Tampa with Second Ship Royal Caribbean International said today that in the fall of 2014 they will homeport a s...

* Spreading Around the Sunshine Carnival announced several deployment changes today for their Florida-based ships. As they are moved around,...

* Construction Begins on Viking Star Fincantieri cut the first steel today for Viking Ocean’s Viking Star, Viking’s first oceangoing small c...

Come next year, Carnival customers who sail from Jacksonville and Tampa are each going to have an additional itinerary to choose from when t...

There's been a lot of coverage of growing home ports in the southeastern states - Charleston (SC), Jacksonville, and Mobile. Each is wor...

* Other Things You'll Want to Know CND subscribers also read about Royal Caribbean ending art auctions on their ships ... Mississippi Qu...