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...Wall Street has moved from worrying about bankruptcy filings to showering cruise ships with ticker tape from the quayside....
...Following the divestiture, “we don’t have to watch what we say, how we talk, what we do, it’s back to the pirate ship”, he said....
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...The company’s expansion in the north-east of the US, where it owns 94 ski lifts versus 41 for its nearest competitor, Boyne USA, is part of a strategy to turn these resorts into feeder destinations....
...According to Chen, the business executive, cruise lines should tap into a younger clientele, who got a taste for life on the seas when all other leisure travel was proscribed....
...“Investors have basically said I don’t really care about one good year in which the sector recovers,” said Alex Brignall, a travel and leisure analyst at Redburn....
...Heimplanet’s tents, meanwhile, are sold to Norwegian cruise ships to take on expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica – and to Icelandic tour guides....
...The head of V.Group, the world’s largest ship manager, has urged Nato to provide naval escorts for vessels passing through the Black Sea, off Ukraine’s coast, a region with global importance for food supplies...
...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....
...Similarly, using ships powered by green methanol adds $1 to the cost of an iPad or 50 cents to a pair of Nike sneakers....
...Ship values themselves look unlikely to climb much. Cruise ship supply, given the delivery schedule, should cap prices....
...ESPN is stuck on a sinking ship: cable television. The network’s viewership has shrunk from an average of 90m subscribers in 2016 to 80m this year. So Disney knows ESPN must switch to streaming....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...Ships, still some way short of their typical lifespan, are being decommissioned....
...For those hoping for a uniform V-shaped recovery, look away now: Yes, looks like all of that pent-up demand we’ve heard so much about might take a while to filter through to the tills of the retailers,...
...Recent launches of Virgin Hotels, Virgin Trains USA and Virgin Voyages, a cruise ship company based in Miami, were badly set back by the pandemic, and he has yet to find a partner to launch Virgin Money...
...“One of the hallmarks of the cruise industry is that we always sail with full ships....
...I’m announcing today, for one year, a new 50% business rates discount for businesses in the retail, hospitality, and leisure sectors....
...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....
...But sales of the Ariens Ikon XD, featuring 20-inch tyres, a V-twin Kawasaki engine and ergonomic plush seat, have surged in the US during the pandemic....
...We have to ship it to the stores the night before the show. It’s a logistical nightmare. So a lot of people can’t do it. But we pulled it off and it’s been very successful....
...The struggling cruise operator Carnival raised $6.3bn in debt and equity from investors this month following high-profile breakouts of the virus on its ships....
...First, most ships are propelled by high-emission fuel oil. Second, hostility to passengers is growing in cities regularly swamped by them....
...In anticipation, WWE moved NXT, which focuses on younger fighters and is its third major offering alongside Smackdown and Raw, from its subscription streaming service to national broadcaster USA Network...
...The shutdown has already brought casualties: MSK Zilina, seven-time football champions of Slovakia, and USA Rugby, the sport’s national governing body, are among those to declare bankruptcy in recent days...
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