San Juan cruise port sees record daily arrivals

Posted on 27 February, 2015 by Spacejunkie2

The cruise port of San Juan reached a record high of 17,847 passenger arrivals on Feb. 25, who arrived on six cruise ships.

The new figure topped the previous records of 15,776 passengers set on Dec. 31; 16,712 on Jan. 8; and 16,395 on Feb. 4.

“The arrival of more than 17,000 passengers in a single day represents an economic impact of approximately $2 million to the economy of Puerto Rico,” said Luis Munez Martinez, deputy director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC).

Recent improvements at the cruise port aided in the passenger and cruise call increase, including Pier 1, which made possible the arrival of the Disney cruises, and the expansion of Pier 3, which favored the arrival of Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas, according to Colberg Ingrid Rodriguez, executive director of the Port Authority.

The ships that called on Feb. 25 included the Quantum of the Seas, Disney Fantasy, MSC Divina, Carnival Glory and Holland America’s Eurodam and Nieuw Amsterdam.

Cruise ships calling on Feb. 26 and Feb. 27 include the Oceania Riviera, Carnival Liberty and Silversea’s Silver Cloud, making a total of 21 cruise ships that have called in San Juan since Feb. 21, including 11 ships that called between Feb. 21 and Feb. 25.

China an option for Norwegian newbuild, Del Rio says

Posted on 27 February, 2015 by Spacejunkie2

Future New Build bound for China?

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings CEO Frank Del Rio told investors that China is being studied as a deployment option for one of its ships on order for 2018.

At a conference for institutional investors, Del Rio said he has formed a team to evaluate the idea.

The exploratory team will do financial research with the goal of making a recommendation by the spring of 2016.

A key question, Del Rio said, is whether Norwegian could make more money with the ship deployed in China or elsewhere.

He noted that after initial losses, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Carnival Corp. report being profitable in sourcing guests from China.

“Others have begun making money there, and if others can, we can,” Del Rio said.

Norwegian has multiple ships on order, including a pair of 4,200-passenger “Breakaway Plus” designs scheduled for delivery in 2018 and 2019.

Undocking the Anthem of the Seas is advanced on Friday afternoon

Posted on 19 February, 2015 by Spacejunkie2

Posted on 19/02/2015

Based on the latest weather forecasts, undocking the Anthem of the Seas is the February 20, 2015 brought forward to Freitagnachmitttag around 15:00 clock.

This is due, among other things, the wind sensitivity of the two floating parts of the Norwegian Escape, which lie at the time of Ausdockens the Anthem of the Seas in Werfthafen and moved.

Also, the placement of the chimney, organizing the required tests and raise the Northstar is brought forward to Saturday.

Delays and temporal changes in the undocking possible due to weather conditions.

In order to facilitate the application of the Anthem of the Seas at the pier, which is currently located at the fitting first floating part of the Norwegian Escape is hauled. The second part of swimming, which is currently in the dock II shipyard is undocked before the Anthem of the Seas and then also within the shipyard harbor. After undocking the Anthem of the Seas, the two floating parts of the Norwegian Escape, which will be completed in the fall of 2015 maneuvering for the further construction in the building dock II free.

For this purpose, it is necessary to cross the sea lock on 19 February from about 7:30 to about 16:00 clock clock and on February 20 from 12:00 clock until February 21 to about 15: back to 00 clock . Lock On Sunday, February 22, it is because of the Dockschleusung the tractor to another locking in from 12:00 clock bis 19:00 clock. All times subject to weather conditions