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. [...]

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 [...]

The search is continuing for 29 people who remain unaccounted for after a cruise ship ran aground off the west coast of Italy last Friday. The capsizing of the Costa Concordia has already resulted in the death of six people, but the local coastguard said it was not giving up hope that more survivors 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 [...]

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 [...]

Some 50 ships, including passenger ferries, have been stranded in the iced-over Baltic Sea according to maritime authorities in Sweden. Reports detail the plight of the commercial vessels that are awaiting aid from ice-breakers, with up to six passenger ferries carrying thousands of people included in the freeze. Two of the ships have so far [...]

Two passengers have died onboard a Mediterranean cruise ship after the vessel was hit by a massive wave measuring some eight metres in height. The two men, one Italian and one German, died after abnormal waves struck the Louis Majesty, part of the Greek Louis Cruise Lines, on Wednesday. There were around 1,800 people on [...]

The resurgence in the cruise industry means that 2010 could well be the best year in a while, as holidaymakers turn increasingly away from the air and head onto the water. So just where are the best destinations for cruising holidays? The following are the current hot items that should be discovered while they can. [...]

Boston’s cruise business has once again set a new record for passenger numbers, making this the third consecutive year it has done so. The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) announced today that Boston’s Black Falcon Cruise Terminal has so far hosted 299, 736 cruise passengers in the year to date, up by a huge 11% from [...]