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...Cruise companies feature operating leverage. Ships have heavy fixed costs so each incremental passenger is highly valuable....
...Last December the first cruise ships in over a decade called into Port Mathurin, operated by the French luxury company Ponant....
...Almost two-thirds of junk bonds issued so far in 2023, worth $70bn, have been secured — meaning debt holders can seize assets ranging from ships, planes or buildings to intellectual property or equity in...
...Covid-ridden cruise ships in the early days of the outbreak....
...For now there’s enough intrigue fuelling this ship to keep us going along with it....
...Letter in response to this article: A sinking feeling faces the cruise ship tourist sector / From Richard Freeman, Kensington, CA, US...
...Likewise a reason so many do it from a boat, whether a cruise ship or an expedition yacht....
...This has become one of the most plied bits of Indonesia, with private charters and even small cruise ships now in on the game; so creating an experience that still feels private to some degree is the challenge...
...waters when he launched cruises on the Peruvian Amazon....
...Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank in 1915, and he managed to rescue all his crew before they perished....
...Our smart box-fresh ship, named only days before in Athens, moored in Crete next to a cruise ship called the Aegean Goddess, which had a sheet hanging from a guardrail painted with the warning, “Do not come...
...The captain does not abandon the ship, and there is a sense of that.” Now as the travel and leisure sector recovers, executives are moving towards retirement....
...While regulars tend to book well ahead, cruise lines offer discounted last-minute sales to fill up ships....
...Ship owners talk of “bubble ” excursions when visiting foreign shores. Note that Tui has continued to run its cruise trips in the Baltics and Canary Islands, though admittedly at half capacity....
...Rival cruise operator Carnival advanced more than 7 per cent....
...Atmosphere’s 14 cabins (all en-suite) accommodate 18 fishermen and -women and 10 lucky tagalongs, for whom they’ll also create non-fishing land excursions....
...their ships to anchor....
...For a cruise ship, which averages 25,000 tonnes without fittings or passengers, that could amount to $4m....
...The problem seems to have been Royal Caribbean’s “Onboard and other revenues” which consists of, according to its last 10-Q: ...primarily of revenues from the sale of goods and/or services onboard our ships...
...One year after surging coronavirus cases forced Carnival’s Diamond Princess cruise ship into quarantine, the world’s largest cruise operator is still to resume its operations....
...Some sectors, like casinos and cruise lines, are likely to see an eventual rebound to 2019 levels of cash flow....
...Airlines and cruise companies had little trouble tapping capital markets even as their businesses were largely put on ice....
...“One of the hallmarks of the cruise industry is that we always sail with full ships....
...But coronavirus has dealt the cruise ship industry what looks like a crippling blow. The 338 ships that make up the industry’s fleet are docked....
...Miami-based Carnival said its ships were worth more than $27bn on paper, but also warned that finding buyers could be tough, as the market for used cruise ships is small....
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