cruise ships

Travel
by Silvia Donati |
The never-ending saga of Venice’s cruise ship has just added another chapter - could it be the last one?  The Italian government has just announced that…
Travel
by Silvia Donati |
For the first time since the pandemic began last March, a cruise ship has returned to Venice.  The MSC Orchestra, a 92,000 tonne vessel, docked at…
Travel
by Silvia Donati |
On April 1, 2021, the Italian government issued an ‘urgent’ decree aimed at regulating large cruise ship and container ship traffic inside Venice’s lagoon.…
Travel
by Silvia Donati |
On August 16, the MSC Grandiosa was the first cruise ship to set sail in Italy since the coronavirus shutdown. It is a seven-night cruise departing from Genoa…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati |
A giant cruise ship lost control on Sunday as it was navigating along the Giudecca canal in Venice, crashing into a river boat and injuring five people. The…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati |
If you only read the titles, then it sounds like good news: ‘Large cruise ships banned from Venice city center’, many websites are reporting. Well, maybe – the…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati |
Cruise  ships above 40,000 tonnes will be banned from St. Mark’s basin and the Giudecca Canal in Venice, it was announced on Friday. Veneto Governor Luca…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati |
Shortly after 6 a.m. this morning, operations to refloat and eventually remove the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany began. The Costa…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati |
Large cruise ships entering Venice will be given a wide berth starting November 30 in an attempt to minimize damage to the delicate lagoon on entry. The Cruise…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati |
On the same day the Venice Lagoon reopened to large cruise ships following a suspension of the ban, an accident involving the MSC Preziosa occurred at the…