An amateur video has surfaced of crew on the Costa Concordia telling passengers that there was nothing to be concerned about after the cruise liner ran aground off the coast of Italy last Friday. A crew member is heard asking people to return to their cabins while a problem with the vessel’s generator is fixed. [...]

A leaked transcript of the interrogation of Capt Francesco Schettino by the Italian authorities apparently shows that he turned the Costa Concordia too late, meaning that it struck rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio. The cruise ship then capsized resulting in the deaths of at least 11 of those who were on board. Reports [...]

The captain of a cruise ship which capsized last week off the Italian coast has been placed under house arrest by judges. Capt Francesco Schettino had been in custody since the Costa Concordia hit rocks off the island of Giglio on Friday. He is under suspicion of manslaughter. The death toll has now risen to [...]

Cunard, the cruise company, has made the decision to register its ships in Bermuda, meaning it will no longer sail under the Union Jack. The company claims that it is making the change so that it will be able to accommodate those who want to get married at sea. Under current UK law, this is [...]

Recent data has shows that the popularity of cruise holidays has risen dramatically among Britons. The news comes via a new report from the Passenger Shipping Association (PSA), which said that UK ports will see 835,000 people depart on cruise ventures in 2012. The figure marks an impressive rise of 28 per cent from the [...]

New fuel regulations coming into effect next month might see the prices of cruises to Antarctica rise dramatically. Cruise ships are going to be banned from being able to use heavy fuel oil across the region as of 1 August, and will switch to a considerably more expensive form instead. The rise in costs will [...]

Gill’s Cruise Centre, one of the country’s longest established cruise-based travel agents, has come under the control of P&P Associates after going into administration last week. The firm was the third-largest cruise company in the UK with around 60,000 passengers. Although Abta has been reassuring those who currently have trips booked with the firm that [...]

P&O has announced that it will be launching the largest cruise liner constructed for British passengers in 2015. It will cost £489 million to build and will have 17 decks and 1,812 cabins. The ship is still to be named and P&O are still to announce the finer details. However, it is believed that the [...]

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is seeing one of its latest booking patterns this summer according to the company’s UK general manager, Jo Rzymowska. Speaking in London at the launch of Royal Caribbean’s website for training travel agents she said that the booking market was one of the latest she had ever experienced. She added that [...]

Cruise operators in the UK are predicting a record number of bookings for holidays at sea this year, as customers are put off flying to holiday destinations by the disruption caused by volcanic ash above Europe and the ongoing strikes at British Airways. Many companies are already reporting a dramatic increase in the number of [...]