Celestyal Cruises, the only home-porting cruise operator in Greece and the preeminent sea cruise line serving Greek destinations and the island of Cuba, today announced it won five awards at the Tourism Awards 2017.
Celestyal won four gold awards:
Tourism Season Expanding Initiatives-Greek Tourism Product Enrichment
Guest Service Excellence
The U.S. Justice Department has ordered top executives from several container shipping lines to testify in an antitrust investigation over practices by an industry that is the backbone of world trade, the companies said on Wednesday.
The world's biggest container group, Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk (MAERSKb.CO), together with second largest line MSC of Switzerland, Germany's Hapag Lloyd (HLAG.DE), Taiwan-based Evergreen and
The shipping industry is on course for consolidation as it moves off three-decade lows, the president of drybulk shipper Genco said on Wednesday.
Anticipating a cyclical recovery to kick in at the end of this year, president John Wobensmith told CNBC's Squawk Box that a pullback in shipping supply is the main driver of the benchmark Baltic Dry Index's recovery of more than 7 percent this year.
The index, which assesses
Aris Messinis spent two weeks on board the Astral reporting on rescue operations carried out to the north of the Libyan coast by the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms.
This coverage has already won 3rd Prize at Pictures of the Year 2017 (POYi) in both the "News Picture Story " and "Spot News" categories.
Aged 40, he has worked for AFP since 2003, and is now based in Athens as head of photo for Greece. He has won numerous international prizes for his work in Libya and
The climax of the week-long series of high level events during European Shipping Week, was reached during the major Conference, which took place on Wednesday 1 March 2017, at the Steigenberger Wiltcher’s hotel in Brussels, where the key issues currently facing European and Global shipping were discussed.
Our joint participation with Endress+Hauser Group in ESW Conference, has been concluded successfully. Our executivesmet with attendees from all
The portgraphic shows the top 15 container ports in the European Union in 2015 based on container throughput expressed in TEU. It also includes container growth figures compared to 2014 and pre-crisis year 2007. What can we observe?
1. The total volume of the top 15 ports saw a small traffic decline of 1.6% compared to
Carnival Corporation, Fincantieri and China State Shipbuilding Corporation have signed a binding memorandum of agreement (MOA) for two of the first cruise ships to be built in China for the Chinese market.
The new agreement updates the terms of an initial shipbuilding MOA announced in September 2016, which outlined plans to construct 133,500gt ships at CSSC Group’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao
Russian researchers find that, by the end of the century, the Northern Sea Route, which hugs the Russian coast opposite the Northwest Passage, could be navigable for more than half the year.
The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth. As Arctic ice levels dwindle through hotter summers and milder winters, the region has opened up to the shipping and energy industries. A new study finds that one shipping route—the Northern
SetelHellas and Endress + Hauser will jointly participate at the European Shipping Week Conference that will take place on Wednesday 1 March 2017, at the Steigenberger Wiltcher’s hotel in Brussels. The aim of the Conference is the discussion of the key challenges that European and Global shipping currently face. Major stakeholders of the shipping industry will come together so as to promote the influence of the current digital erain shipping business and the importance ofthe mutual
SetelHellas and Endress + Hauser will jointly participate at the European Shipping Week Conference that will take place on Wednesday 1 March 2017, at the Steigenberger Wiltcher’s hotel in Brussels. The aim of the Conference is the discussion of the key challenges that European and Global shipping currently face. Major stakeholders of the shipping industry will come together so as to promote the influence of the current digital erain shipping business and the importance ofthe mutual consistency
The future of cargo transportation will be autonomous, according to Rolls-Royce, which has revealed plans for a remote-controlled, unmanned ship that could take to the seas as early as 2020.
Design for a remote-controlled cargo ship
The company, better known for making luxury cars and jet engines, has published a white paper setting out its vision for cargo vessels that can be monitored remotely by a
Awards for Best Cruise Ships for Value - Shore Excursions - Entertainment - Embarkation
On Wednesday, cruise review website Cruise Critic announced the winners of the 2017 Cruisers' Choice Awards.
The 2017 Cruisers' Choice Awards were determined based on ratings and reviews collected during a 12-month period. The seventh annual awards handed out prizes for four ship size classes based on passenger capacity, including
As a silver sponsor of this year’s Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum, the Piraeus Port Authority PPA will be promoting its Cruise Terminals as the Centre of the Mediterranean Cruise Experience.
The port facilities are suitable to serve every ship size, the modern equipped Passenger Terminals and the high quality provided services, make Piraeus one of the most attractive cruise ports in the Mediterranean.
The improvements in the current
Norwegian Cruise Line will offer weekly cruises to Cuba through at least December.
The Miami-based cruise operator on Tuesday announced it had been approved for 25 more sailings to the island nation to take place between early June and the end of the year.
The line previously had been approved for just five sailings to Cuba in May.
As with the previously announced voyages, all of the newly announced trips will be on the
ALBA Graduate Business School at The American College of Greece and the International Propeller Club Piraeus offer to the participants of the Propeller Club Amver Awards Dinner 2016 (and their relatives) the opportunity to pursue one full scholarship (100% of the tuition fees: £22,500) for the MSc in International Shipping and Finance (ISF) program in collaboration with the University of Reading in U.K.
The ISF
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed a memorandum of agreement to build two new cruise ships for Carnival Corporation.
Expected to be finalised in early 2017, the contract covers a third 99,500gt, 2,660-guest Pinnacle-class vessel for Holland America Line, which will be built at Fincantieri’s Marghera yard in Italy. The ship will be delivered in 2021, when she will debut interiors similar to those
Since the early 2000s, Greek shipowners have been a major presence in the US public markets. The value of Greek family holdings surged towards the end of the 2003–7 shipping super-cycle, slumped in the wake of the 2009 financial crisis, and rebounded to surprisingly lofty levels in 2014, ironically, a year when Greece’s government was in the midst of a severe financial crisis.
In May 2014, IHS
The offshore oil and gas supply shipping company Toisa Ltd filled for bankruptcy protection after falling of demand of its services and inability for loan repayment, as well as low cash flows. The Bermuda-chartered company and 23 of its affiliated vessel-owning companies filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, New York. Toisa Ltd accumulated
