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As of 2021, the cruise industry was estimated to be around US$ 23.8 billion with 13.9 million passengers per year. The following is a list of the largest cruise lines with over 1,000 passengers per year and their market share by passengers and revenue as of 2021 according to Cruise Market Watch.
Built as the fastest transatlantic liner. Aurora: 1955 1955-1972 Under restoration for future museum ship in Stockton, CA [2] Converted in 1960 to a Greek cruise ship as the Delos: Nordstjernen: 1956 1956–present Sailing for Svalbard cruises. Rotterdam: 1959 1959–2000 Hotel and Museum ship in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Combined ocean liner/cruise ship. Ended service 1954. Later Berlin, scrapped 1966. Gripsholm: Swedish America Line: 1957: 23,191: Combined ocean liner/cruise ship, built as sister ship to the Kungsholm. Sold to Karageorgis Lines in 1975, renamed the Navarino. Sold to Regency Cruises in 1984 as the Regent Sea, operated until 1995. Sunk 2001. [8 ...
From 1956-1971, Bergensfjord operated transatlantic crossings during the warmer months, with cruises during the winter. But as airline competition increased during the 1960s and ocean liners became less profitable, the company decided to put Bergensfjord up for sale.
Cruise companies have been called on to “clean up their act” by local conservationists and tourism operators concerned about the impact of liners on the Great Barrier Reef.
In 1950 she was sold to become the SS Europa, carrying immigrants to the United States from Europe; later, she became a Bahamas cruise ship, the SS Nassau. Its final incarnation was under a Mexican flag as a Los Angeles to Acapulco cruise liner, SS Acapulco, making her the only ocean liner to ever fly the Mexican flag. The ship was scrapped in ...
Lanette Canen and Johan Bodin went on one cruise together before buying their Odyssey cabin. The ship plans to sail around the world every 3 ½ years. Its departure has been delayed by three months.
SS Leonardo da Vinci was an ocean liner built in 1960 by Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy for the Italian Line as a replacement for their SS Andrea Doria that had been lost in 1956. . She was initially used in transatlantic service alongside SS Cristoforo Colombo, and primarily for cruising after the delivery of the new SS Michelangelo and SS Raffaello in 1965.