Americas & Caribbean

Azamara's 2025 schedule includes a return to Canada for the first time since 2017 and double overnight stays at certain European ports.

Australia’s Aurora Expeditions is offering passengers to Antarctica the opportunity to add a 10-day ‘Patagonia Discovery Trek.'

Ports received nearly $40m in federal dollars from the US Department of Transportation fiscal 2023 round of funding from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program.

Maritime systems and services provider Elcome International established a new office in Vancouver, BC to meet growing demand for its services across the country and the broader North American continent.

Celebrity Cruises revamped its summer 2024 Caribbean season, doubling year-round sailings in the region and charting Perfect Day at CocoCay for the first time.

Carnival Corp. & plc expects to handle 7.5m passengers a year at its owned and operated ports in the Caribbean/Latin America once Grand Bahama Port is completed.

Transport Canada mandated formerly voluntary wastewater discharge regultations for cruise ships, effective immediately.

The Bahamas will postpone cruise head tax hikes until January, instead of this July, according to local reports.

In a strategic decision to focus on river cruises, American Queen Voyages will exit the Great Lakes in 2024 and sell Ocean Voyager and Ocean Navigator.

Utopia of the Seas will commence three- and four-night voyages from Port Canaveral to the Bahamas starting July 2024.