Cruises and Cruise Liner Visits to Ireland
#CruiseLiners - Dublin Port welcomed its millionth cruise liner passenger to the capital this morning (Friday 27 September) since numbers were kept 20 years ago. As Business & Leadership reports, Diane Taylor from Newfoundland in Canada disembarked from the Carnival…
Port of Cork Signs Up to Atlantic Alliance Cruise Ship Destination Project
23rd September 2013 Cruise Liners
#atlanticalliance – The ATLANTIC ALLIANCE is a marketing project of 18 ports along Europe's West coast between Hamburg and Lisbon, including Britain and now an Irish port. The project highlights to cruise companies that there is in Europe an attractive…
#CruiseLiners - The 'floating university' MV Explorer is due to dock at Dublin Port tonight 20 September, according to The Irish Times. Last year the cruise liner, which operates as part of the University of Virginia's Semester at Sea study…
Cruise Passenger Numbers Visiting Ireland Could Quadruple Over Next Decade
18th September 2013 Cruise Liners
#CruiseLiners - Cruise passenger numbers visiting Ireland could quadruple over the next decade if the right facilities are in place, an Oireachtas Joint Committee has heard. Chairwoman designate of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company, Eithne Scott Lennon said the south…
#CostaConcordia - There were celebrations all round on the Tuscan island of Giglio early yesterday as the operation to raise the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia was successful in lifting the ship upright, The Irish Times reports. The video above…
A ‘Legend’ Visits Dublin Port Prior to Trans-Atlantic Repositioning Cruise
17th September 2013 Cruise Liners
#CarnivalCruises- The 293m long Carnival Legend docked in Dublin Port this morning prior to making a repositioning trans-Atlantic cruise next week, writes Jehan Ashmore. Carnival Legend arrived overnight from the Greenock, the cruise port for Glasgow which too welcomed the…
#CostaConcordia - The salvage master charged with righting the ill-fated cruise liner Costa Concordia has spoken of the risks involved in the task. Still lying in her side on the Italian coast off Tuscany after grounding in the shallows on…
#FredOlsen - Boudicca (1973/28,388grt) of the Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines docked in Dublin Port yesterday to embark Irish passengers on a direct no flights cruise to Iberian ports, writes Jehan Ashmore. The call to Dublin was to take senior citizens…
#MunsterCruise – German tourists are on a cruise around Ireland which included a visit to Foynes yesterday followed by a short overnight passage to Cobh today, writes Jehan Ashmore. The cruise on board Phoenix Reisen's Amadea 29,008 tonnes vessel marked…
#CruisePromotion – The Southern Star writes, that communities in West Cork have been asked to play an active role in attracting the cruise ship operators to the region. Five key people involved in the initiative gave a concise presentation at…
#CruiseSector - The best Irish cruise liner season in 60 years has reached a 50% hike in passenger numbers at some ports. More than 100 major cruise liners have visited Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Belfast this summer, with the trade…
#CruiseLiners – Dublin Port has two cruiseship callers today, Thomson Spirit (1983/33,930grt) and Ocean Princess (1999/30,277grt) both are approximately the same in tonnage terms, yet they are starkly different in design, writes Jehan Ashmore. Thomson Spirit had sailed from Belfast…
#CruiseLiners – German cruise operator, Passet Kreuzfahrten's Delphin (16,214grt) is visiting Dublin Port today, the small former Soviet cruiseship is berthed just short of the East-Link Toll Lift bridge, writes Jehan Ashmore. The cruise set off from Oban and terminates…
#CorkCruiseCalls – The Port of Cork will be busy tomorrow as three cruiseships capable of carrying a combined total of 4,200 passengers are to visit the natural harbour, writes Jehan Ashmore. First to make an entrance will be Celebrity Infinity…
#CruiseLiners - Cruise liner visits are worth more than €40 million annually to the Cork economy, it has emerged. According to TheCorkNews.ie, the economic boost comes with a 50% in cruise visitor numbers last year, with 88,000 passengers coming to…
#AIDAcruises - AIDAcara (1996/38,000grt) with her bold livery of colourful facial features splashed over the hull, is more easily recognisable to cruise-goers and enthusiasts alike as a fleet member of AIDA Cruises, writes Jehan Ashmore. The Rostock based operator's 196m…
