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...Demographics are also on its side as baby boomers splurge on cruises. Yet despite the impressive run, only Royal Caribbean is near its pre-pandemic high....
...Royal Caribbean is basing only one of its cruises, the 2,137-cabin Spectrum of the Seas, in Singapore as its home port, as its former port Hong Kong only removed cruise restrictions in October....
...“Everybody you speak to on cruises nowadays says: ‘Gee, it’s good to be back home, it’s good to be back on the seas again,’” said Mike Alcock, a 72-year-old retiree from Northamptonshire, who has taken six...
...By contrast, Russia has four submarines in the Black Sea armed with Kalibr cruise missiles....
...Richard Fain, chief executive of Royal Caribbean, the second-largest cruise line, said “a lot of people assume that you simply take what happens on land and apply it on to the sea” but the industry could...
...One Royal Caribbean employee, who asked not to be identified, says that, until most of the crew from his ship were returned home in mid-April, 1,600 crew were at sea for three weeks without guests but under...
...In recent weeks the PIF has snapped up stakes in beleaguered cruise line operator Carnival and European oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell and Total, whose shares have been hit by the collapse in...
...A Saudi analyst close to the royal court says PIF previously sought but struggled to attract a cruise ship company to the Red Sea, where the fund plans to develop a high-end tourism project and Neom, a $500bn...
...Royal Caribbean plans to add more ships in 2019, including Spectrum of the Seas, a cruise liner for the Chinese market....
...Here’s UBS, which had a meeting on Monday with Royal Dutch Shell’s IR department and is a buyers up to £24.50....
...For instance, Royal Caribbean’s 3,800-capacity Mariner of the Seas will return to the US....
...Nature enthusiasts can take a week-long “total-eclipse” cruise, offered by Royal Caribbean, during which Bonnie Tyler will perform “Total Eclipse of the Heart” while passengers watch the sky show by sea....
...India is also well ahead in developing an at-sea missile system, having test-launched a cruise missile from a submarine in 2013....
...Fellow cruise-ship operator Royal Caribbean Cruises declined by 3.7 per cent to $70.01....
...Last weekend Royal Caribbean launched the world’s largest cruise ship — Harmony of the Seas. The liner, which set sail from Southampton, cost $1.5bn and can carry up to 9,000 people....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Elsewhere, cruise line stocks were facing rough seas....
...The major cruise companies, led by Carnival and Royal Caribbean, which together account for 80 per cent of the Chinese market, have begun sending new vessels to be permanently based in the east and fitted...
...The world’s joint third largest cruise ship, MS Anthem of the Seas, owned by Royal Caribbean, arrives at berth 101 in Southampton Docks ahead of her naming ceremony...
...Royal Caribbean has sent its latest ship, Quantum of the Seas, to be permanently berthed in Shanghai....
...At 348m long, you might have thought Royal Caribbean’s billion-dollar new “smart” cruise ship would be hard to miss, yet at first I failed to spot it....
...The redeployment of Costa Serena intensifies competition for the Chinese market, following rival Royal Caribbean’s decision last month to redeploy the 4,180-passenger ship Quantum of the Seas to Asia....
...Dash to the Black Sea The Russian Silkway rally races over 4,000km from Moscow to Volgograd, ending in Astrakhan on the Black Sea (to July 13)....
...cries a passenger on the Royal Mail Ship that connects the island to Cape Town....
...Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas are much larger than the Concordia, each carrying 5,400 passengers and just short of 2,400 crew....
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