20+ hour, 43+ min ago   (272+ words) Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday for 140 people from the passenger vessel Virgo Transport 8 after the ship lost contact in the Java Sea during severe weather. A total of 103 people had been evacuated from the vessel, with one of those…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (231+ words) 21 people were injured, 6 of them seriously, after a ferry and an oil tanker collided near Penang Port in Malaysia on September 1st. The collision occurred at ~8:40 p.m. local time. The Malaysian-flagged oil tanker Mekar Jaya was reportedly sailing from the Butterworth Deep…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (377+ words) RCI-Royal Caribbean International has cancelled the August 30th, 2026 departure of Serenade of the Seas from Vancouver after technical repairs could not be completed in time for the ship to safely begin its planned Alaska voyage. Passengers aboard the vessel have been…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (280+ words) A passenger died after falling from a balcony onto a lower exterior deck of NCL-Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Getaway during the final night of a 3-night Bahamas cruise. The incident occurred late on Sunday, August 23rd, as the ship was returning to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (131+ words) RCI-Royal Caribbean has cancelled many 2027 sailings aboard Navigator of the Seas and Ovation of the Seas as the two ships are being redeployed to support the expanded Asia-Pacific programme. The affected voyages were scheduled to operate from Los Angeles with…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (290+ words) MSC Cruises has announced changes to its Winter 2027-2028 schedule, with MSC World Asia moving into the South Caribbean and MSC World Europa continuing to operate in the Western Mediterranean. The programme will include calls at Castries in Saint Lucia, St....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (349+ words) The death toll from the capsizing of the government-owned passenger ferry Mbuya Nehanda on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba has risen to 94, making the August 11th accident the country’s deadliest public transport disaster. The vessel was travelling from Kariba town in northern Zimbabwe…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (207+ words) Passenger medically evacuated from Royal Caribbean's Ovation OTS off British Columbia CruiseMapper A passenger aboard RCI-Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas was medically evacuated by helicopter on August 9th while the cruise ship was sailing off the coast of British…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (225+ words) Christmas market cruises remain a major component of the European winter river-cruise season, with itineraries along the Danube combining visits to markets in Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Hungary with festive programming on board. Riverside Luxury Cruises is offering a selection…...