Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.’s new Espresso reservation system has officially gone live. The new reservation system allows travel agents to sell cruises from Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, Azamara Club Cruises and CDF Croisieres de France.

MSC Cruises' MSC Sinfonia has returned to service after undergoing a ten-week drydock in Genoa, Italy, as part of the cruise line's "Renaissance Program."

Furthering the cruise line’s commitment to growing the China vacation market, Royal Caribbean International announced that Tianjin, China, will be the new home for its third Quantum-class ship, Ovation of the Seas. The news was given by Royal Caribbean’s President and CEO, Michael Bayley.

Carnival Corporation has signed two strategic memorandums of agreement that will add a total of nine new cruise ships to the company’s industry-leading fleet over a four-year period from 2019. The shipbuilding agreements are subject to several conditions, including satisfactory financing.

Next year Puerto Rico will welcome the largest cruise ships in the world, Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, both from the Royal Caribbean line, as announced today by Puerto Rico Tourism Company’s Executive Director, Ingrid Rivera Rocafort and Port Authority Executive Director, Colberg Ingrid Rodríguez.

U.S. cruise lines are preparing to enter uncharted waters -- Cuban waters. Although U.S. tourists are still technically banned from visiting the Caribbean country, the process of normalizing relations between the U.S. and Cuba has the cruise industry ready to pounce.