The Cruise Itinerary Is Now a Weather Forecast
ShipUniverse Cruise Itinerary Resilience Report When the Hurricane Leaves but the Cruise Port Still Fails Hurricane Rachel was already moving away from Brilliant Lady. The ship was no longer threatened by the storm. Cabo...
Can Cruise Software Really Find $1 Million Per Ship
ShipUniverse Cruise Digital Operations Report The $0.91 Per Passenger Test for Cruise Software A million dollars sounds too large to come from software until it is divided by the operating scale of a modern...
Thousands of Passenger Ships Need a Second Build
ShipUniverse Passenger Ship Supplier Report The Multibillion-Dollar Market Hidden Inside Existing Ships The maritime supplier market has traditionally been organized around the new ship. Win the specification before steel is cut, stay on the...
Is China’s Cruise Market Finally Ready for a Second Expansion Boom?
ShipUniverse Asia Cruise Market Report Why Cruise Capacity Is Moving Back Into China One ship moving to Shenzhen would not prove that China’s cruise market is entering another expansion cycle. But ships are now...
Costa Just Rebuilt the Cruise Ship Engine Watch
ShipUniverse Cruise Human Performance Report Six Straight Hours in the Engine Room Costa Cruises has changed the mathematics of its engineering watch. Three watch teams previously divided each day into six four-hour periods. Every...
Five Drydocks in One Year: What Does Keeping an Aging Cruise Fleet Competitive Actually Cost?
ShipUniverse Cruise Fleet Economics Report When Does Rebuilding a Cruise Ship Beat Replacing It Carnival Corporation is preparing for five major fleet-modernization drydock periods in fiscal 2027, compared with only two in fiscal 2026....
The Fallout when a 226,963-GT Cruise Ship Loses a Hot-Water Line
ShipUniverse Cruise Hotel Systems Report When a Cruise Ship Plumbing Failure Becomes a Passenger Emergency A plumbing line fails somewhere above a passenger corridor. Water begins coming through the ceiling. On a vessel with...
America Is Quietly Building a Domestic Small-Ship Cruise Fleet
ShipUniverse U.S. Cruise Fleet Report Six New Ships in Two Years Are Reshaping U.S. Cruising American Ranger entered service on the Hudson River in September as the third new American Cruise Lines vessel launched...
Cruise Booking Is Moving Inside AI. What Happens When the Travel Agent Becomes ChatGPT?
ShipUniverse Cruise Distribution Report What Happens When Cruise Shopping Starts With a Prompt Cruise shopping used to begin with a destination, a search box and dozens of browser tabs. Then came online travel agencies,...
A Cruise Ship Cannot Outrun Every Storm. So How Much Weather Margin Does It Really Have?
ShipUniverse Cruise Weather Routing Report Why a 22 Knot Cruise Ship Cannot Simply Outrun a Hurricane A modern cruise ship can make more than 20 knots. A tropical cyclone may move at 10, 15...
Cruise Ships Can Detect Man Overboard in Real Time. Why Isn’t Every Ship Doing It?
ShipUniverse Cruise Safety Technology Report The Cruise Safety Technology That Took 16 Years to Arrive The technical problem that frustrated the cruise industry for more than a decade is becoming much harder to call...
Anatomy of the First 10 Minutes After a Passenger Goes Overboard
ShipUniverse Cruise Safety Report Inside a Cruise Ship Man Overboard Response A passenger disappears over the rail of a cruise ship making 20 knots. Nobody on the bridge can see the water directly beneath...
The 25 Cruise Ports With the Strongest Operator Economics
ShipUniverse Cruise Port Economics Report Where Cruise Ships Make the Numbers Work The busiest cruise port is not automatically the most economically attractive one. A port can move millions of passengers and still impose...
Can a $10M Battery Installation Eliminate a Cruise Ship Generator?
ShipUniverse Cruise Power Report When a Battery Becomes a Virtual Generator A battery large enough to cost $10 million can hold several megawatt-hours of energy. That sounds like enough to replace a generator. But...
When Cruise Ships Plug In the Grid Feels It
ShipUniverse Cruise Infrastructure Report The Cruise Ship Plugs In. Then the City’s Grid Gets the Bill. From the pier, shore power can look almost absurdly simple. A cruise ship arrives, connects a cable and...
What Breaks First When a Cruise Ship Loses 40% of Its Electrical Generation?
ShipUniverse Cruise Decision Report The first thing to disappear should not be navigation, steering or fire protection. It should be electrical demand. On a modern diesel-electric cruise ship, propulsion and the hotel plant are...
Cruise Ship Elevator Modernization and the 8 Upgrades Owners Can Make Without Replacing the Entire System
Cruise Elevator Modernization Outlook 2027 Old elevator shafts do not automatically need new elevators. Anyone who has spent time around an aging cruise ship knows the elevator complaint before the machinery report arrives: slow...
Cruise Ship Thermal Batteries: Can Stored Waste Heat Replace Boiler Fuel in Port?
Cruise Engineering Report | 2026 Cruise Ships Throw Heat Away at Sea, Then Burn Fuel to Make It Again in Port There is something hard to ignore once you look at a cruise ship’s...
Beyond Starlink and How Cruise Ships Are Building Multi-Gigabit Internet at Sea
Cruise Connectivity Report | 2026 Cruise Internet Has Moved Past the Starlink Question Not long ago, cruise ship internet was the amenity everybody paid for and nobody bragged about. That has changed fast. Guests...
Hidden Costs Behind Liquid Hydrogen Cruise Ships
Hydrogen fuel cell cruise ship Liquid hydrogen cruise ships are here. The hard part is everything wrapped around the 6 MW fuel-cell system. The headline sounds clean: hydrogen in, water out. Ship operators know...