Author: Spacejunkie2

  • The Rotterdam VII is completing its first year in service. After being delivered a few months earlier, the new Holland America Line flagship welcomed its first guests on October 20, 2021. On that day, the 2,650-guest vessel departed the Netherlands for a 14-day transatlantic to the United States. Sailing from Amsterdam to Fort Lauderdale, the…

  • According to a press release, Royal Caribbean International has revealed the first look at the highly anticipated Icon of the Seas, the Icon of Vacations.  Arriving in late 2023 ahead of its January 2024 debut, the company announced the first Icon Class ship will be the travel industry’s first-of-its-kind combination of the best of every…

  • “We are redesigning the future of navigation on a strategic and technological level,” Luigi Matarazzo, general manager of the Merchants Ships Division at Fincantieri, told Cruise Industry News. “The ships we are building will increasingly resemble large, hyper-connected, energy self-sufficient, lighter and greener, propelled floating cities, capable of recycling up to 90 per cent of the…