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...Richard Branson’s first cruise ship will finally set sail this week after three false starts, a 17-month delay and “a significant amount of money” poured into the business by investors....
...Numerous cruise lines have taken similar steps. Windstar, for example, is allowing cancellation up to 15 days before setting sail (but for a credit note rather than a refund)....
...Hold: Saga (SAGA) By maintaining a public listing, current investors have the chance to participate in a greater recovery if Saga’s cruise liners set sail before too long, writes Alex Newman....
...Closing quote — essential comment before you go John Gapper Cruise ships are hurting the high seas....
...More than half the places on the first few cruises are already gone and the first ship does not set sail until next year....
...decision to sail the world’s largest and most luxurious mega-vessels eastward....
...Each spends an estimated average of Y90,000 ($750) in a few intensive hours of shopping before they sail back to Tianjin or Shanghai. In 2014, 91 cruise ships travelled from China to Fukuoka....
...Saga, the financial services and travel group focused on cruise-loving over-fifties, has lived up to its name in its voyage towards the stock market. It is expected to announce a float soon....
...“Clive Palmer’s ambitious Titanic II is about as likely to sail its maiden voyage on time as its namesake is to ever sail again,” opined the Murdoch-owned Courier-Mail....
...’ Silver Galápagos, claimed to be the most luxurious cruise to sail around the Galápagos Islands, makes its maiden voyage this weekend....
...The Sea Cloud, which has four masts supporting up to 29 sails, was built as a private yacht in 1931....
...Moreover, life expectancy is rising at an unprecedented pace as citizens sail through benchmarks once considered the maximum extent of human lifespan....
...Mina Zayed will be turned into a facility for cruise liners as part of Abu Dhabi’s tourism drive....
...Costa Cruises confirmed that it had given the captain permission to sail within 500 metres of Giglio last August on the occasion of the island’s saint’s day, but not last Friday....
...Workmen pad about gingerly in slippers on a nearly completed yacht; it will continue to be taken for test sails in the bay until ready for delivery....
...“Titanic II will sail in the northern hemisphere and her maiden voyage from England to North America is scheduled for late 2016....
...She serves as a cruise ship too but she was built specifically to sail across that demanding sea at speed to a fixed schedule....
...Carnival Cruises, Cunard’s US owner, has already moved its 16 Princess Cruises ships to the island. They have performed weddings since 1998, when it launched its first ship with a chapel....
...Ambassador is the parent company of Windstar Cruises, the cruise ship operator. In the preceding two days shares in the company had rocketed in value, gaining 194.7 per cent....
...Now 54, he has become a kayaking instructor, sails, keeps two boats and rides about the combes and bays on his BMW 1200 motorbike, while still working a few days a month as an IT consultant....
...Should the veil of privacy slip, options will remain for cautious Chinese high rollers, including the fleet of cruise ships that sail nightly from Hong Kong into international waters....
...As for poignancy, well, to my mind there is always something poignant to the presence of great ships because they seldom live for very long and, in their decline, often sail into pathos....
...A cruise ship sporting the signature orange hue of EasyGroup will set sail this November, with prices starting from $16 a person – about the same price as two-drink specials on a leading cruise line....
...Carnival rose 1.4 per cent to £31.51 as investors continued to warm to the cruise operator’s record second quarter eanings on Thursday....
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