Carnival Vista 3 Work Underway

Fincantieri began work today at their Marghera yard on hull #6272, by cutting the first steel for the ship.

The sheet metal will then be assembled into blocks and those blocks will then be assembled in the dry dock into Carnival's third Vista-class ship, which at this point, is still unnamed.

Details appeared in the July 7 edition of Cruise News Daily.

The plasma torch in the background cutting the sheet metal is cutting the first steel for Carnival Vista 3.

Photo courtesy of Fincantieri. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without express permission. 

Queen Meets Queen

Britain will soon have a new aircraft carrier which is named HMS Queen Elizabeth. She will be commissioned shortly, but is currently on sea trials off the coast of Scotland. Cunard's RMS Queen Victoria is currently sailing a 13-night British Isles cruise. Yesterday (July 6) their paths crossed in the Moray Firth.

The complete story appeared in the July 7 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Photos are courtesy of the Royal Navy. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without permission. 

Other Things You'll Want to Know - July 7, 2017

CND subscribers also read about:

• The completion of the project to dismantle and recycle Costa Concordia. 
• An unusual wedding aboard Cunard's Queen Victoria

Details appeared in the July 7 edition of Cruise News Daily.

All Ashore ....

MSC has added a number of service enhancements about being ashore beginning with MSC Meraviglia which entered service in the Mediterranean last month.

The most notable is a new port info service in which personnel at the ship's Port Info Desk have been trained by local tourist boards in each port to become experts on the ports of call.

The complete story appeared in the July 6 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Curtain Coming Down after 18 Years

Here's an idea to keep in the back of your mind for the next time you are sitting in the audience of an improv show and they want the audience to throw out ideas: A group of actors getting fired from a cruise ship job.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Second City improv troupes will be ending their run on Norwegian Cruise Line ships early next year.

Details appeared in the July 6 edition of Cruise News Daily.