Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines appoints Justin Stanton as sales and marketing head

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Published: 02 February 2017 02 February 2017

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, the UK based destinational cruise line, said it has appointed Justin Stanton as its new Sales and Marketing Director, reporting into Mike Rodwell, Managing Director.

“Based at its Head Office in Ipswich, Suffolk, Justin Stanton has been Head of Marketing for Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines since 2012. In his new role, Justin will take responsibility for the Sales Department, managed by Neil Herbert – Head of Sales, and Public Relations, managed by Rachael Jackson – Public Relations Manager, alongside the Marketing Departmen,” the company said in a statement.

The role will concentrate on enhancing and further developing Fred. Olsen’s relationships with trade partners, whilst ensuring that marketing and PR activity continues to drive sales to travel agents, who deliver the majority of bookings.

He joined Fred. Olsen in 2006 as Marketing Services Manager, primarily responsible for production of brochures and brand advertising. Previously, he worked for eight years at the award-winning specialist Tapestry Holidays in the Sales & Marketing team, latterly as Head of Marketing. With more than 20 years’ experience in the travel industry, Justin started his career as a graduate trainee at Harrods.

Crystal Cruises partners with Arctic Kingdom in Canada for second Crystal Serenity North West passage cruise

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Published: 01 February 2017 01 February 2017

Crystal Cruises’ Crystal Serenity will again sail the North West Passage this August for the second year in a row, the company said in a statement.

“Aboard the ultra-luxury vessel will be a comprehensive team of Arctic experts from Canada-based Arctic Kingdom, global leaders in Arctic travel, who will share their knowledge and passion for the region’s unique culture, wildlife and geography with guests onboard, as well as lead discovery expeditions ashore,” the company said.

The 32-day voyage departs Anchorage/Seward, Alaska for New York City on 15 August and sails through some of the most spectacular, remote areas of the previously unpassable polar region. Crystal Serenity’s 2017 Northwest Passage Explorer will mark the final voyage for a classic Crystal ocean ship to sail through the Arctic region.

Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 2017 to focus on Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea

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Published: 01 February 2017 01 February 2017

Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 2017 that will be held in Athens,  Greece 23 to 24 May will look at the situation and prospects for the cruise industry in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. Geopolitical events in both regions have hurt cruise business in them and stakeholders should work together to reinvent the regions’ combined offering, executive director Theodore Volos of Posidonia Exhibitions said in a statement.

AIDAprima hosted one day conference on LNG

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Published: 30 January 2017 30 January 2017

s part of the international trade conference "Making LNG Happen: Combining Forces for Sustainable Shipping," 80 leading representatives from the fields of business, politics and science visited the cruise ship AIDAprima of AIDA Cruises in Rotterdam on Thursday, 26 January. The guests included Dirk Brengelmann, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Netherlands and his Norwegian colleague Martin Sørby.

On board of the first cruise ship in the world that uses a dual-fuel engine to produce its energy from low-emission liquefied gas (LNG) while docked at port, leading LNG experts from Germany, Norway and the Netherlands informed themselves about the practical experiences of AIDA Cruises with the use of LNG.

After the first successful test run for the LNG supply of AIDAprima in Hamburg on May 7, 2016, the cruise ship is successfully being provided with LNG while docked at all ports on its route - Hamburg, Rotterdam, Le Havre, Southampton and Zeebrugge. This is a significant contribution to environmental protection, since an AIDA ship spends about 40% of its operating time in a port. Compared to using conventional marine diesel with 0.1% sulfur content, emissions are considerably reduced even further by using LNG. Sulfur oxides and soot particles can be prevented completely. Nitrogen oxide emission is reduced by up to 80% and CO2 emissions are lowered by 20%

"We believe in LNG as the fuel with the lowest emissions that is currently available and have been performing pioneering work in this area for many years. In the summer of 2015 we announced that we will be the first cruise company worldwide to operate the ships of the next AIDA generation - which are being built at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg and commissioned as of 2019 - 100 %with LNG. We are pleased that other cruise lines are now also following our example and have ordered new constructions with LNG fuel as well," said Dr. Monika Griefahn, Chief Sustainable Officer AIDA Cruises at the trade conference in Rotterdam.

"However, we also need the support of the ports and LNG producers to invest in the necessary infrastructure," Dr. Monika Griefahn continued.

AIDA Cruises invested in the research and testing of applications to use LNG in cruise ships early on. We collaborated on the LNG hybrid barge together with Becker Marine Systems in 2013 to develop and launch an innovative and flexible solution for providing environmentally friendly energy to the ships using liquefied gas while they are moored in the Hamburg harbor. Since May 30, 2015, AIDAsol has been supplied with low-emission power from liquefied gas (LNG) at the Hafencity Cruise Terminal; in 2016 alone this included 16 arrivals.