Port Canaveral in Florida

25 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Cruise Ships Reading Time:  7 minutes

Disney Wonder at Port Canaveral © flickr.com - Rennett Stowe/cc-by-2.0

Disney Wonder at Port Canaveral © flickr.com – Rennett Stowe/cc-by-2.0

Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo and naval port in Brevard County, Florida. It is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world with nearly 2.8 million multi-day cruise passengers passing through during 2010. As a deep water cargo port, it has a high volume of traffic. Over 3,000,000 short tons (2,700,000 t) of bulk cargo moves through each year. Common cargo includes cement, petroleum and aggregate. The port has conveyors and hoppers for loading products directly into trucks, and facilities for bulk cargo containers. The channel is about 44 feet (13 m) deep.   read more…

The Freedom of the Seas

1 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Cruise Ships, Yacht of the Month Reading Time:  9 minutes

Freedom of the Seas on the maiden voyage © Andres Manuel Rodriguez

Freedom of the Seas on the maiden voyage © Andres Manuel Rodriguez

MS Freedom of the Seas is a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International. It is the namesake of Royal Caribbean’s Freedom class, and can accommodate 3,634 passengers and 1,300 crew on fifteen passenger decks. Freedom of the Seas was the largest passenger ship ever built from 2006 until construction of the Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis-class ships in late 2009. The Freedom of the Seas was built at the Aker Yards Turku Shipyard, Finland, which built the ships of the Voyager class as well as the other ships of the Freedom class. Upon its completion, it became the largest passenger ship ever built, taking that honor from Cunard‘s Queen Mary 2. Freedom of the Seas arrived in New York Harbor for its official naming ceremony on 12 May 2006 which was broadcast live on NBC’s The Today Show from Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne, New Jersey (the ship’s official New York berth), and thereafter traveled to Boston for the weekend of May 19–22. It began operations out of Miami with its first cruise and maiden voyage on June 4, sailing to western Caribbean locations in Mexico, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica as well as Labadee, in Haiti, one of Royal Caribbean’s private resorts. Although the ship is registered in Nassau, The Bahamas, it is home ported in Port Canaveral, Florida, after moving from the Port of Miami.   read more…

The Disney Dream

23 December 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Cruise Ships Reading Time:  15 minutes

© www.schiffgiganten.de - Patrick Martini

© www.schiffgiganten.de – Patrick Martini

The Disney Dream is Disney Cruises’ newest cruise ship and was launched in January 2011 at a gala inaugural christening celebration with past Disney singer and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson as her godmother.   read more…

The Disney Fantasy

1 January 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Cruise Ships, Yacht of the Month Reading Time:  7 minutes

Disney Fantasy arriving in New York © Stjanss and mriedel/cc-by-sa-3.0

Disney Fantasy arriving in New York © Stjanss and mriedel/cc-by-sa-3.0

Disney Fantasy is a cruise ship of the American cruise company Disney Cruise Line, part of The Walt Disney Company. Disney Fantasy is the fourth ship in the cruise line. In February 2007, Disney Cruise Line announced that it had commissioned two new ships for its fleet. The first steel-cut, for scrollwork on the ship’s hull, took place in March 2009 at the Meyer Werft shipyards in Papenburg. Later that month, the two ships were named, with the Disney Fantasy set to enter service on March 31, 2012, a little over a year after its sister vessel, the Disney Dream.   read more…

The Disney Magic

23 July 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Cruise Ships Reading Time:  6 minutes

Disney Magic at Cozumel, Yucatan © Altairisfar

Disney Magic at Cozumel, Yucatan © Altairisfar

Disney Magic is a cruise ship operated by the Disney Cruise Line, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Disney Magic is over 80 feet longer than the RMS Titanic. Scattered throughout the ship, there are Mickey Impressions, known as “Hidden Mickeys”. People like to search for them.   read more…

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