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France Pulls Back Carrier and Reshuffles Arabian Sea Flotilla

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More Cruise Lines Are Going Adult-Only

Published Jul 20, 2026 9:03 AM by The Maritime Executive

While a segment of cruising has been devoted to the adult-only travel market, it is expanding to more cruise lines as a possible response to the increasingly amusement-laden cruise ships. Going against the trend of marketing multi-generational cruises, several additional cruise lines have announced plans to transition into adults-only cruises. Mostly adult-only cruising has been limited to smaller ships and luxury brands, such as Viking, which has always been adult-only in keeping with its positioning of being a “thinking man’s”...

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Holland America Adopts Carnival's Evolution Strategy for Updating Ships

Published Jul 20, 2026 9:01 AM by The Maritime Executive

Holland America Line is rolling out the details of what it is calling the largest fleet update in the 153-year history of the company and harkening back to the late 1960s and early 1970s when its liners were converted to be year-round cruise ships. Updating popular existing ships of the fleet is a strategy that has served Carnival Corporation well and provides an opportunity to add new features and more revenue opportunities. For Holland America, the strategy calls for investing...

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Approval for Rome Cruise Terminal Cancelled by Italian Court

Published Jul 20, 2026 8:56 AM by The Maritime Executive

The efforts to develop a new cruise terminal that would be located closer to Rome and provide growth capacity were set back by an Italian court that rejected a key government approval. The project, which involves Royal Caribbean Group, is the latest example of the efforts by the cruise industry to expand port capacity and create modern terminals able to handle the mega cruise ships. Known as the Fiumicino Waterfront Project, the plan is billed as a redevelopment of a...

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Low Water Levels Challenge European River Cruising

Published Jul 20, 2026 8:41 AM by The Maritime Executive

As Europe has suffered through record high temperatures and a drought, it has raised concerns over the impact on residents. In addition, it is also presenting issues for commercial shipping, including river cruising. This summer has become extremely dangerous, with reports such as a doubling of France’s mortality rate. Experts are saying that as many as 10,000 additional people may have died so far this summer over normal mortality levels due to the heat. While the worst of the heatwave...

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Sweden Permits Two Offshore Wind Farms, Denies 11 Due to Defense Concerns

While saying that Sweden needs to develop new power sources and critically green power to remain competitive, the government had nonetheless decided to deny 11 pending applications. It was the latest move by the government, which also denied 13 applications in 2024, citing defense concerns. “The government assesses that the applied for activities would, among other things, have an unacceptable impact on our defense capabilities,” said the Ministry of Climate and Enterprise. “However, the decisions do not mean that the...

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Shipbuilding

Joey D'Isernia

Interview: Joey D'Isernia, CEO & Chairman, Eastern Shipbuilding Group

Welcome, Joey, and congratulations on 50 years of shipbuilding excellence! Are there celebrations planned? Oh yes, a whole year's worth! We've built it into all our various employee and community engagement events – company picnic, charity fishing tournament, employee appreciation lunches, end-of-summer celebration where we rent out an entire waterpark for our employees and their families. We like to stay close to our employees and engage with them, and we're highlighting our 50th anniversary in that manner and it's kind...

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Environment

Green Ammonia ship

Proving Phase

For years, ammonia has held a strange place in shipping's transition – promising, commercially uncertain, operationally uncomfortable. It carries no carbon atoms, can be made from renewable hydrogen and nitrogen, and may eventually serve deep-sea trade routes that batteries cannot reach. But it's also toxic, corrosive, and unforgiving. "Ammonia slip," where unburned ammonia escapes through combustion or exhaust, is a real concern when injection timing and combustion pressure are poorly controlled. The question is no longer whether ammonia can work....

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Business

Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

JPMorganChase Provides $24M to Strengthen Philadelphia’s Naval Shipbuilding

Leading U.S. investment firm JPMorganChase will provide $24 million to help strengthen Philadelphia’s shipbuilding and maritime manufacturing sector. The combination of loans, investments, and philanthropic grants comes as the Trump administration continues to struggle with its plan to revitalize the American merchant marine and naval shipbuilding capacity. The program was announced by well-known CEO Jamie Dimon, reporting that the company will make $18 million in investments and loans, and provide $6 million in philanthropic grants. He said the focus is...

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