Like the towboats moving along the nation’s rivers, American Cruise Lines (ACL) vessels are American owned, built and crewed. Cassandra Caldwell, ACL’s government affairs manager for the Mississippi River and… Read More
Passenger Vessels
American Cruise Lines (ACL) marked the Fourth of July earlier this month with the christening of its newest passenger cruise vessel, the American Patriot. The company held a christening ceremony… Read More
Viking Cruise Lines’ Viking Mississippi visited Paducah, Ky., on July 1 after high water in the Upper Mississippi kept it from continuing north toward Red Wing, Minn. The vessel left… Read More
More than 1 million people are expected to attend a new festival along the Ohio River this fall featuring nine excursion boats from seven different cities. America’s River Roots Festival… Read More
The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA), the sixth largest U.S. cruise port and the only port in the country that offers both ocean-going and river cruising, set a new… Read More
Guilford, Conn.-based American Cruise Lines (ACL) has announced a contract with Chesapeake Shipbuilding for four new vessels. In all, ACL will now accept delivery of 10 new vessels from Chesapeake… Read More
A group of Louisiana religious and maritime leaders have announced a first-of-its-kind blessing August 14-15 of the fleet of commercial vessels that work along the Lower Mississippi River. The two-day… Read More
Valley Gem Sternwheeler will launch a second vessel into passenger service May 25 in Marietta, Ohio. The Major/Riviera is a combination unit made of the historic towboat Major… Read More
American Cruise Lines (ACL), a Guilford, Conn.-based operator of river and coastwise passenger vessels in the United States, has announced plans for three of the four vessels the company… Read More
American Queen Voyages ceased all operations February 20, terminating its employees and canceling all future cruises. Hornblower Group, parent company of American Queen Voyages, announced it was filing… Read More
