Tagged: MSC Cruises

MSC Cruises today announced that, as of 10 December of this year, MSC Armonia will add Miami to its 7-night Cuba & the Caribbean itinerary and will homeport there alongside MSC Divina and MSC Seaside. (more…)

MSC Cruises announced today that sales for MSC Grandiosa are now open. For her inaugural season, the much-awaited first MSC Cruises Meraviglia-Plus generation ship will set sail in the Western Mediterranean. Sales for MSC Grandiosa will open for an initial two-week period exclusively for members of the MSC Voyagers Club, the loyalty rewards programme for MSC Cruises guests. For all other guests, sales will open on March 19th. (more…)

With sales opening on March 5th 2018, MSC Grandiosa is one of two ships to come into service in 2019 and will be spending her inaugural winter season in the Western Mediterranean. MSC Grandiosa is named to signify magnificence and grandeur, a fitting name for this even richer, ultra-modern mega-ship. (more…)

MSC Cruises UK & Ireland has reportedly seen booking levels to rise by 32% year-on-year following the best ever two weeks of trading. (cruisebusiness.com)

MSC Cruises announced it has established a new partnership with China’s leading online payment platform, Alipay, to offer mobile payment solutions on all MSC ships. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The Lirica will depart China this spring in favor the MSC Splendida, which will sail from Shanghai starting in April, and bigger plans are on the horizon for 2019. “In China we will grow from a smaller ship, from the MSC Lirica to the Splendida,” Gianni Onorato, CEO, told Cruise Industry News.

Marlink has provided more than half a gigabit per second of throughput on its global Sealink VSAT network for MSC Cruises’ stunning new Seaside class cruise ship, at its service launch ceremony in Monfalcone, Italy on 30 November 2017. (more…)

MSC Cruises, the rapidly expanding Geneva based cruise shipping company, plans to double its share of the UK market and will bring the 139,072 gross ton MSC Preziosa to Southampton in 2019, Travel Weekly reports in a newsletter. (cruisebusiness.com)

MSC Cruises has revealed it will send MSC Meraviglia, which launched June 2017, to the Big Apple fall 2019. MSC Cruises made the announcement Monday, December 4, at an event in the private Union Club, attended by travel agents and a small group of media. (cruisecritic.com)

Today in the port of Trieste, MSC Cruises celebrated the coming into service of MSC Seaside, the new flagship for MSC Cruises, as she prepares to welcome the first guests and cross the Atlantic for her new home in Miami. (more…)

Roy Yamaguchi is no stranger to good food. A James Beard Best Pacific Northwest Chef, he founded of thirty international Roy’s Restaurants from Hawaii to New York. (huffingtonpost.com)

MSC Cruises is upping its game out of South Africa as the MSC Sinfonia made its first call to Pomene Bay in Mozambique, a new destination MSC said is a marine safari-style experience. Pomene Bay is a remote and unspoiled peninsula, 605 km north of Mozambique’s Capital Maputo and 170 km south of Vilanculos, the company said. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

MSC Cruises has announced that its upcoming new cruise ship, the MSC Seaside, will sail with a beer-themed improv comedy concept and a lineup of seven new Broadway-style shows. (travelagentcentral.com)

The long-term partnership between MSC Cruises and Cirque du Soleil has seen the creation of the entertainment concept Cirque du Soleil at Sea and will result in a total of eight original shows that will be exclusively available on MSC Cruises’ four Meraviglia generation ships, coming into service between 2017 with MSC Meraviglia and 2020. (more…)

The MSC Orchestra, Poesia and Musica will get exhaust gas cleaning systems (better known as scrubbers) during upcoming scheduled drydockings. The hybrid scrubbers will be supplied by LAB, part of the CNIM Group of companies. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

MSC Cruises announced today the opening of sales of its second world cruise, setting sail in 2020. Sales open today, October 23, for MSC Voyagers Club members and everyone else on November 23. (more…)

When the MSC Splendida arrives in China next May, it will bring with it a number of fresh, new features for the Chinese cruise market following a November refurbishment. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

MSC Cruises announced today that MSC Lirica will serve a brand-new, exciting itinerary in the East Mediterranean for the Summer 2018. The ship, which will homeport in beautiful Venice, will depart for her first cruise on April 6, 2018 and sales are now open. (more…)

MSC Cruises has today announced the launch of a new vanguard video surveillance system offering even greater on-board security. In another industry-first, MSC Cruises has developed this highly-sophisticated advanced system in collaboration with global leaders in security technology, Bosch and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. (more…)

MSC Cruises has announced updated Caribbean itineraries. These updates have come due to the recent tragic weather events that have affected populations as well as individual destinations across the region, including Philipsburg (St Maarten), Road Town (British Virgin Islands), and Roseau (Dominica). (more…)

MSC Cruises is planning a significant capacity change for the 2018-2019 season in Brazil, including the new MSC Seaview, which will homeport in Santos. The 154,000-ton ship will replace the smaller Preziosa and will also interport in Salvador. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Collaborating with MasterChef producers, Endemol Shine Group, the partnership will bring the MasterChef brand to MSC Cruises in an immersive entertainment format that will roll out across the fleet from summer 2017, the company said. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

MSC Cruises is continuing its expansion in North America with two new hires to its sales team. Holly Sievers and Brett Draper will now be joining the sales crew as manager of host and home-based accounts and manager of corporate and incentive sales for North America, respectively. (travelagentcentral.com)

MSC Cruises has unveiled its comprehensive range of shoreside activities and services for guests of MSC Meraviglia. 19 additional Mediterranean shore excursions have been added to an already extensive range, including five exclusive tours especially designed for guests aboard MSC Meraviglia. (more…)

MSC Cruises and Air France-KLM signed a global agreement offering “exclusive services and greater flexibility” for guests booking Fly&Cruise holiday packages. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Marlink’s Sealink VSAT is providing an unprecedented over 300 Mbps bandwidth for super-fast maritime broadband during the maiden voyage of MSC Cruises’ first next-generation new mega-ship, MSC Meraviglia. (more…)

Last evening, June 3, the latest wonder in the MSC Cruises fleet, MSC Meraviglia was christened in a glittering ceremony by international screen legend and godmother of all of MSC Cruises’ ships, Sophia Loren. (more…)

The Durban Cruise Terminal will be getting a significant upgrade as KwaZulu Cruise Terminal, a joint venture between MSC Cruises and Africa Armada Consortium, has won the bid build a new two-ship terminal and operate it for the next 25 years. (cruiseindustrynews.com)