A life at sea is something which has tempted many a sailor in to the maritime industry, now there are several plans to launch floating communities. As every other blog is full or NCL’s stock market listing and Royal Caribbean’s ‘Royal Advantage’ refurbishment program (which we covered here), we thought we would do something different!… Read More A Life on the Ocean Waves
We’re going to be doing a series of blogs titled ‘The Rise and Fall of : …’. These will investigate the business decisions and influences that caused some cruise businesses to end services. Our intentions are to run an article on each of the on the following: Regency Cruises, First European/Festival Cruises & Royal Olympic Cruises and of… Read More The Rise and Fall of : Regency Cruises
As the Global Economy has stalled, cruise line have worked hard to keep vessels full, and weather the storm. Carnival axed its dividend…Royal Caribbean …er… got the Worlds two largest cruise ships drastically increasing capacity… okay, bad example. (We have a blog for that) But as the growth of the industry has created a market… Read More Out with the old and….In with the refurbished?
On the 3rd March 2009 Royal Caribbean stock was low, in fact very low at $5 a share. This was during the construction of the worlds largest cruise ship, The Oasis of the Seas. Now, Just over two years later the stock price has soared, despite rising fuel costs and instability during the Arab Spring.… Read More The Oasis. The Royal. And The Halo.
In the growth of the Cruise Industry in the past few decades, there has been several attempts at launching a ‘Low Cost’ Cruise Line, non seem to have met any significant success. So I decided to investigate, I have chosen the little known ‘Vacation Liners’ and Stelios’ ‘EasyCruise’. In air travel the opposite is true with… Read More Why hasn’t ‘Low-Cost’ Crusing Taken Off?
