Kiel, October 12, 2011: The 2011 cruise shipping season in Kiel ended today with a visit by the “AIDAcara”. The port was visited 120 times this year by nineteen different ocean-going luxury liners.

The "Seabourn Quest" on Aug 18, 2011, rescued two people in a dramatic operation south of Mykonos, South Aegean Sea.

Carnival Corporation & plc today announced it has reached agreements for the construction of three new cruise ships – one 132,500-ton vessel for its Costa Cruises brand and two 125,000-ton ships for its AIDA Cruises brand.

The vessel, which on its debut in 1996 was the biggest and boldest cruise ship the industry had ever seen, has since been surpassed in size and in style, but a reported upcoming makeover may well return it to prominence.

The newest flagship, the Costa Favolosa (114,500 gross tonnage and a capacity of 3,800 total Guests): the largest cruise ship flying the Italian flag.

P&O Cruises today welcomes the first female cruise ship captain to sail in Australasian waters.

Rotterdam for sale Rotterdam's Woonbron wants to get rid of the SS "Rotterdam", the corporation announced on June 6, 2011.

Barcelona Port receives 27,200 passengers in only one day with seven cruise ships It is the second busiest day of the year for cruise ships after August 20th, when nine ships with 31,000 passengers are expected.

When the "MSC Opera" was detained in Southampton on May 25 she had arrived overladen and also was in violation of several international safety codes that the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency described as major.

Costa Cruises informs it is resuming calls in Japan at the end of August starting with a Costa Classica four day cruise departing from Shanghai on August 26 and calling at Fukuoka on August 28.