When ships had lines and didn’t look like floating HDB blocks.
Expedition Ships Collide in Argentina:
"0 most stunning cruise ports in the world:
Do you agree, or have other ports on your list?
PS: As #12:
Geiranger Cruise Port. Geiranger, Norway
Only problem is that this NOT Geiranger but Hellesylt.
This is Geiranger Cruise Port:
PS: If there are no suitable berth, let the “quay” come to you:
Since we are talking about popular cruise port and Norway, here is the 10 most popular cruise ports in Norway:
Yellow Fever is considered to be the most dangerous vaccination. it kills some tiny fraction of a percent of the people that take it. Only a few specially licensed clinics offer it in the US. They won’t give Yellow Fever vaccine to people over 65.
Additional countries require proof of Yellow Fever vaccination if you are traveling from countries where Yellow Fever is endemic (e.g. Panama to Costa Rica, but enforcement is spotty and mostly likely at airports).
It used to be that the Yellow Fever vaccination needed to be repeated every 10 years, but now one vaccination is considered good for life.
Any stability problem?
5 cruise ships escaped from the Persian Gulf via the inshore route in Omani waters:
So we will see at least 3 of them back on their regular Norwegian Fjords cruises this summer:
MSC Euribia has been stuck in Dubai for several weeks – now the ship will be on its way back on her regular visits here .
Photo: Randi Ansok
Source: På veg tilbake - smp.no
The FRAM visited Harlingen Photo’s : Wim Albers (c)
MS FRAM is a passenger vessel operated by the Norway-based Hurtigruten. The ship is named after the original FRAM the ship used by explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen. The ship operates in the Arctic Ocean and around Greenland in the summer, and cruises around Antarctica at other times of the year.
Boat landing for the Polarsirkel boats carried on MV Fram:
Can it become too many cruise ship, with too many passengers on a single day?:
Two cruise ships have already docked Wednesday morning.
A third boat is expected later in the day.
Photo: Øyvind Sandnes / NRK
The two large ships today were;
MV AIDAnova: Pax capacity: 6654
MV MSC Euribia: Pax capacity: 6327.
Source: Nesten 13.000 cruiseturistar kom til Ålesund då tre turistbåtar la til kai på same dag – NRK Møre og Romsdal – Lokale nyheter, TV og radio
PS: The MSC Euribia escaped from Dubai a few weeks ago.
Cruise ship news mixed with decarbonisation and new fuels.
Wärtsilä and Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) have entered into an 8-year l**ifecycle agreement** covering four LNG-fueled cruise ships within the Princess Cruises and Carnival Cruise Line fleets, including two newbuild vessels currently under construction. The agreement marks the first service contract between the companies covering Carnival Corporation’s LNG-fueled ships. Under the agreement, Wärtsilä will provide a comprehensive lifecycle maintenance solution for the vessels’ Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines and related equipment.
Several Norwegian Cruise Ports are contemplating taxing cruise passengers, but nowhere near as much:
IFAIK no port has implemented it yet.
PS: NOK 100,- is proposed by the Government as the upper limit, but most ports are talking in terms of NOK 25-50.
Disney Dream is on her first visit to Ålesund this year:
The Disney Dream docked in Ålesund on Friday. The 340-meter-long cruise ship is owned by Disney and has room for around 4,000 passengers.
Disneyland afloat?
Some brave souls brave or summer weather anyhow:
Photos: Iver Skrede, smp.no
PS: She will make another call next week, but that is it for this year. (Disney Magic is a more regular visitor here)
Don’t worry, there will be others. Lots of others.
Yes, some think too many.
The number of cruise ships call at the port of Ålesund is expected to be over 260, with two or three ships together some days:
Here is a guide to Ålesund Cruise Port:
https://mynordictrips.com/blog/Alesund-cruise-port-the-complete-2026-guide-for-cruise-passengers
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