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Joel Valenzuela has been named director of maritime operations at the Port of San Diego. Valenzuela was previously the department manager of maritime industry and trade relations at the Port. He assumed his new role July 19. Valenzuela will direct the operations, maintenance and development of the Port’s maritime facilities and infrastructure, including the Port’s cargo [...] Six additional cruise ships due next year at the Port of Astoria include larger ships from Alaska heading for ports south. That according to cruise ship marketing representative Bruce Conner who says 15 ships are now booked here. “The economy has turned around for us in the cruise industry. Our cruise hosts have shown the [...]
The Mariner of the Seas and its 250,000 passengers annually have made up 30 percent of the Port of Los Angeles' cruise business. Starting in January, it will be based in Galveston, Texas, and sail to Europe and the Caribbean. Cruise lines are also scaling back their trips to Mexico from San [...] The Carnival cruise ship Elation. Photo by the Port of San Diego. The project will mean cruise ships won’t need to run their diesel engines to power the ships while docked at the port, reducing the amount of air pollution generated along the shore. The $7-million project should be completed by December but will allow only [...] A cruise ship leaving Seattle It was the best of times and now the worst of times. Vancouver, with more than 900,000 Alaska-bound passengers in 2009, is down this year to less than 600,000. Seattle, with 846,000 passengers this year, will lose two ships and more than 75,000 passengers in 2011. Cruise business peaked in 2002, [...] More travelers are booking cruise vacations and paying more for the getaways, a welcome sign for an industry that’s struggled to keep its cabins full, executives at Carnival Corp. said Tuesday. Carnival cruise ships berth at the Port of Long Beach. In the past nine weeks, reservations for the next nine months climbed 8 percent at [...] MSC ship in Brasil Customers of shipping lines created container shipping’s deepest crisis and contributed to persistent and damaging price instability in the sector, the head of the industry’s second-biggest operator has said. Gianluigi Aponte, chief executive of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), told the Financial Times that every main line would survive the crisis, in [...] The MSC Fantasia, completed in 2008, is similar to the new ship to be completed in 2012. It’s official: MSC Cruises is getting another new, 140,ooo-ton vessel to debut in mid-2012. The new cruise ship will have 1,751 cabins — 100 more than the two earlier ships in the class. It’ll carry 3,502 passengers at [...] The San Francisco port sold $36.7 million in bonds to pay for a variety of major waterfront projects, the latest step in a multi-pronged approach to shore up its aging assets. The revenue bonds will help pay for a new cruise ship terminal at Pier 27, renovate a cargo shipping site, refurbish other piers to [...] |
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