MAKING WAVES — A CRUISE NEWS LOG

AND THE WINNER IS... Carnival Cruise Lines was named Southern Living Magazine's "Best Cruise Line" in its 2008 Readers Choice Awards. It also took "Best Domestic Cruise Line" honors in the Travel Weekly Readers Choice awards and "Best Cruise Value" in the superior four star category according to readers of Ocean and Cruise News... Celebrity Cruises' Celebrity Constellation was voted "Top Large-Ship Cruise Ship in the World" by readers of Conde Nast Traveler... Crystal Cruises' Crystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony were voted "Best Medium-Sized Cruise Ships in the World" in the same derby... Silversea Cruises has been proclaimed the Number One Overall Luxury Cruise Line by high-net-worth consumers in the 2008 Luxury Brand Status Index survey of New York-based Luxury Institute.

AMSTERDAM will receive a record number of cruise ships and passengers this season. 119 arrivals will take place, a 52 percent increase over 2007. The number of passengers will increase from 145,000 last year to 210,000 in 2008. Among the home-porting carriers this year are Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Costa, Holland America, and MSC. A 408-room hotel, connected to the terminal, opened a year ago... Cruise Lines International Association, a trade group, projects that 10.5 million North Americans will board cruise ships this year. That compares with 10.3 million in 2007... The growing interest in South America as a cruise destination has resulted in 91 scheduled cruise ship visits to Buenos Aires for the 2008-09 season. The port has completed $158 million in new piers, deepening of channels, and other facilities to prepare for the surge... A consortium of 15 ports on Europe's west coast has formed the "Atlantic Alliance," whose goal is to gain more cruise traffic. The ports include Hamburg, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Cherbourg, Bordeau, Vigo, and Lisbon.

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