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With Oceangoing Cruises Still Absent At U.S. Ports, River Cruising Gets Underway

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With Oceangoing Cruises Still Absent At U.S. Ports, River Cruising Gets Underway

April 30, 2021

While much of the nation’s economy is back underway, albeit with restrictions due to COVID-19 still in place, one segment still stuck in port is the blue-water cruise industry. Earlier… Read More

Cruise Companies Bet On Pent-Up Demand

December 5, 2020

The passenger cruise industry has been one of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 outbreak. In its early days, several outbreaks aboard ocean passenger liners were highly publicized on social… Read More

Edison Chouest To Build Viking River Cruise Boat Artist's rendition of the Viking Mississippi (from Viking River Cruises website)

Edison Chouest To Build Viking River Cruise Boat

April 3, 2020

Even as COVID-19 has sidelined all of the company’s cruise and exploration ships around the world, Viking Cruises still has an eye toward the future. On March 30, Viking announced… Read More

Viking Denies It Is Abandoning Mississippi River Cruising Plans

January 15, 2018

Several news sources claimed over the second weekend in December that Viking River Cruises is abandoning its plans to offer cruises on U.S. rivers aboard European-style longboats, but the company… Read More

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