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  • AIDA’s ships to visit 250+ call ports in winter 2023-2024

    • January 31, 2023
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    • Category: Ports, Ships
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    AIDA Cruises offers tourists a variety of routes in winter 2023-2024 with 250+ ports of call in 80+ countries. The 2023-2024 cruise program includes voyages to the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and Seychelles, getaways in the Orient, around the Canaries, and cruises in the north. The AIDAsol ship is scheduled to set off on her 117-day world cruise

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  • Cruise Ships: What Has Changed Post-Pandemic?

    • January 20, 2023
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    • Category: General, GOOD WINDS, Ships
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    The Covid-19 pandemic hit us suddenly and caught us unaware. It crippled life in an unprecedented way and, in many ways, has changed our way of living forever. On land, the covid-induced lockdowns and social distancing- terms barely heard of before, became common terminology. Physical interaction and socialising, one of the basic human needs, became

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  • AIDA Cruises Raises Pay, Benefits for Crew Members

    • January 18, 2023
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    • Category: General, GOOD WINDS, Ships, Uncategorized
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    Carnival Corporation’s brand AIDA Cruises announced that the company is raising pay for all crew by 5 percent. According to a report from Crew Center, the pay rise will be carried out in two steps, with the first increase of 2.5 percent in February 2023, and 2.5 percent in July 2023. “Since we returned to service over

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  • AIDAnova – an amazing experience

    • September 21, 2019
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    • Category: GOOD WINDS, Ships
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    Our company was invited to join a two days tour onboard AIDAnova in May 2019, from Palma de Mallorca to Civitavecchia in order to see and understand what it means life onboard Aida Cruises passenger vessels for the seafarers we recruit. It was an amazing experience! We landed in Palma de Mallorca where we met

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  • A Look Back at the Past 25 Years of Shipping

    • February 13, 2017
    • Posted by: Ana-Maria Ilinca
    • Category: General, Ships, Uncategorized
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    Clarksons Research take a look back to 1992 and compare the shipping industry then to its profile today. If this reveals anything it’s that while many things change dramatically, in an industry like this some things don’t appear to change too much at all. Seaborne trade provides the platform upon which the shipping industry operates.

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  • Norwegian To Debut New Ship Exclusive For Alaska Cruising

    • October 17, 2016
    • Posted by: Ana-Maria Ilinca
    • Category: Ships
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    Norwegian Cruise Line will once again pioneer a new era of Alaska cruising beginning June 2018, as the company announced today that its next new vessel, named Norwegian Bliss, will be the first cruise ship custom-built with features and amenities for the ultimate Alaska cruise experience. Norwegian Bliss will cruise to America’s Last Frontier from

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  • Wärtsilä Powers The World’s Largest Cruise Ship, ‘Harmony Of The Seas’

    • June 10, 2016
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    • Category: Ships, Technology
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    Harmony of the Seas

    Royal Caribbean International’s Harmony of the Seas, featuring Wärtsilä engines, propulsion equipment, exhaust scrubber systems, Wärtsilä NACOS Platinum navigation and dynamic positioning systems, as well as Wärtsilä CCTV systems and various electrical & automation solutions, is now in commercial operation. The ‘Harmony of the Seas’ has also been included in a service agreement between Wärtsilä

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  • BIMCO President Speaks On The “Road To Recovery” For The Dry Bulk Market

    • June 5, 2016
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    • Category: General, Ships
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    The dry bulk market could become profitable again in 2019 – but only if a series of extremely tough and sustained measures are taken by shipowners, year on year. This is the message from BIMCO President, Philippe Louis-Dreyfus, ahead of Posidonia 2016 as BIMCO releases new market analysis – “The Road to Recovery” – on

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  • World’s Most Advanced Fireboat Dedicated at Port of Long Beach

    • June 3, 2016
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    A new fireboat was officially welcomed into service Wednesday at the Port of Long Beach, representing a significant leap forward in protecting the harbor and the flow of trade through the nation’s second-busiest seaport. In a dockside ceremony attended by 100 invited guests, the fireboat named “Protector” was dedicated in memory of Donald Domenic DiMarzo,

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  • CMA CGM Takes Over NOL

    • June 2, 2016
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    • Category: Ships
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    CMA CGM S.A. (CMA CGM) satisfied on 9 June the acceptance condition in its all-cash voluntary conditional general offer (Offer) for Neptune Orient Lines Limited (NOL), after NOL’s majority shareholders (Temasek and its affiliates) tendered all of their shares in acceptance of the Offer. The Offer has therefore been declared to be wholly unconditional. “We

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