The 130,000-ton Carnival Breeze, conducts sea trials in the Adriatic Sea in preparation for its inaugural June 3 voyage from Venice, Italy.   More photos below:

Back in December, Viking River Cruises surprised the industry when they announced that they will build 2 new 888pax ocean going ships in STX France yards. This will be the lines first attempt in blue water cruising. Around a week ago, there was some talk that the deal was off and Viking was trying to [...]

Buzz on the floor today is after leaders from major European shipyards heavily criticized the Mitsubishi deal with AIDA. They claimed that that the pricing model of the AIDA ship is “unstable”. Corrado Antonini, Fincantieri chairman Mitsubishi has come up with a price per lower berth that no other builder could match. [Mitsubishi is]10 years [...]

Carnival Corp. announced 2 newbuild agreements they entered into. The first deal inked with Carnival Favorite Fincanteri, calls for one ship for Italian/European brand Costa Crociere. The unnamed vessel will come in at 132,500grt. making her the largest for Costa and 3rd largest in Carnival Corp (QM2 and Royal Princess are larger). Pax numbers are, [...]

(Click for larger) Is this the new princess newbuild? It could be. This new ship will be the largest Princess ship to date. She made news the other day when Carnival and Princess firmed up the order for her and her sister. Below is the attached press release. Please note the photo is pure speculation [...]