Beginning in 2014, Carnival Cruise Lines will diversify Carnival Splendor’s year-round offerings from New York, adding new four- and five-day Canada cruises, seven-day Canada/New England departures and eight-day, one-way eastern Caribbean voyages between New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
New ship deployments next April include the recently transformed Carnival Sunshine, which will reposition from New Orleans to Port Canaveral, and the Carnival Dream, which will reposition from Port Canaveral to New Orleans to increase capacity by 22 percent there on year-round, seven-day Caribbean cruises.
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has confirmed an order for a second Breakaway Plus ship for delivery in the spring of 2017. Along with its sister Breakaway Plus ship, set to debut in October 2015, the two new vessels will be the line’s largest at approximately 163,000 gross tons and 4,200 passenger berths each, and will be the first new ships in the industry to feature innovative engine emission scrubber technology developed by Green Tech Marine.
Finally, NCL is reportedly the first major cruise line to be certified and in compliance with the International Labor Organization’s 2006 Maritime Labor Convention, which provides comprehensive rights and protection at work for the world’s more than 1.2 million seafarers, including NCL’s 17,000-plus crewmembers.
