NEWS
UPDATES
December 3 - NCL Corporation
(NCL) today announced it will be expanding its relationship
with gift shop concession partner, Flagship Retail Services
Inc. Flagship, which has operated the gift shops on board
Norwegian Sun, Norwegian Star and Norwegian Spirit since 2001,
will add four more ships to its roster - Norwegian Wind, Norwegian
Majesty, Norwegian Crown and Norwegian Dream.
November 18 - Today Norwegian
Cruise Line (NCL) helped 125 couples relive one of the happiest
moments of their lives on ABC television network’s “Good
Morning America.” At a group reaffirmation ceremony
with BRIDE’S magazine held at the Hammerstine Ballroom
in New York City, 125 couples - including 23 participants
from the U.S. Armed Forces - renewed their wedding vows live
on national television.
November 16 - Today, NCL Corporation
announced that it has acquired one of the two major tour bus
companies in Hawai`i, Polynesian Adventure Tours. Polynesian
Adventure Tours operates over 100 motor coaches and buses
and is licensed to operate as a tour bus company on all four
of the main Hawai`i islands.
October 21 – Norwegian
Cruise Line (NCL) today announced Norwegian Jewel will be
delivered on August 5, 2005 from the Meyer Werft Shipyard
in Bremerhaven, Germany and will offer two European sailings
before heading to the U.S. to begin her Homeland Cruising
program. After inaugural festivities in New York and a series
of 11-day Canada and New England cruises, Norwegian Jewel
will homeport in Miami and feature an Eastern and Western
Caribbean itinerary throughout the winter season.
July 27, 2004 – NCL Corporation
(NCL) today unveiled the itinerary for Pride of America, the
second of three U.S. Flagged ships that will sail Hawai`i
under the NCL America brand. With a delivery date of June
6, 2005 and after several inaugural cruises, Pride of America
will begin sailing seven-day roundtrip cruises from Honolulu
on July 23, 2005 as well as offering three-day and four-day
inter-island cruises between Honolulu and Maui.
July 16, 2004 - In a realignment
of its corporate structure within the Star Cruises Group,
and through two new financing transactions, the newly named
NCL Corporation Ltd (“NCL Corp”) has raised funds
totaling $1.05 billion. The proceeds will be used to refinance
existing debt, and to fund the continued renewal and growth
of the fleet.
July 6, 2004 –
On Independence Day, NCL America announced the addition of
a third U.S. Flagged ship to Hawai`i to be delivered in the
summer of 2006. The Pride of Hawai`i is the second ship in
the original Project America program and the third ship of
the brand’s U.S.-Flagged fleet, joining Pride of Aloha
and Pride of America.
July 5, 2004 - NCL America
announced today that it had concluded negotiations with Lloyd
Werft in Germany, its insurers and banks, and agreed a new
delivery date for the Pride of America on June 6, 2005.
July 4, 2004 – Today
marked a milestone in U.S. maritime history as NCL America
christened the first modern U.S.-flagged cruise ship in nearly
half a century. The inaugural celebration of Pride of Aloha
represents a new beginning for the U.S. Flagged cruise industry
that has been dormant since 2001.
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