29 NOV: Carnival Australia and a female passenger from Albury NSW have reached a settlement over injuries the woman claims to have suffered during a Sun Princess cruise in 2008.

29 NOV: Florida’s Port Everglades (Ft Lauderdale) has broken the record for the number of cruise ship passengers handled in one day.

28 NOV: Orion Expedition Cruises has outlined a new ‘yield management system’, saying that the ‘Guaranteed Savings’ campaign which ends Wednesday has produced record bookings over the past month.

24 NOV: Low water levels are affecting late-season sailings along Europe’s Rhine and Danube rivers.

22 NOV: Another major cruise line has cut parasailing from its Caribbean shore options.

21 NOV: The yacht on which Hollywood actress Natalie Wood was partying the night she met her death 30 years ago is to be used for charter voyages.

21 NOV: Celebrity Cruises has canceled all parasailing excursions in the Caribbean indefinitely after a passenger died on one of the trips last week, the Virgin Islands Daily News reports.

18 NOV: Passengers on Carnival liner Carnival Magic saw a little more action than usual during dinner on Wednesday night.

17 NOV: A Mississippi man has been jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing a teenage girl on a Carnival cruise earlier this year.

16 NOV: Singing legend Rod Stewart may join one of next year’s Titanic 100th anniversary sailings.