Aircraft carriers and cruise ships are among the biggest ships the world has ever seen. Both these ship types are awesome sights, but -- obviously -- both serve distinctly different purposes. Cruise ships exist to give us a taste of luxury and take us to ...

CLIA executives are clinging to hope that they can persuade government officials to reconsider banning large cruise ships from the Nice-Cote d'Azur region in the south of France. The cruise industry association is combating yet another attempt by a popular ...

The Icon of the Seas is a big ship. At 1,197 feet long and weighing in at 248,663 gross tonnes, she is the largest cruise ship in the world. She has 20 decks and can hold 7,600 passengers and 2,350 crew members. A ship that size needs some big engines to ...

The city aims to spend billions of dollars extending the Manhattan Cruise Terminal's piers hundreds of feet into the Hudson River, a massive waterfront project that requires Congressional approval and is already drawing fire from environmental groups ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After decades of dormancy, the SS United States, once the fastest ocean liner in the world, is set to become an artificial reef off the Florida Panhandle. It has caused a big buzz on the ...

We're back with new episodes of the Folo, and we're kicking it off with two back-to- back episodes about cruise. And why not -- it's Wave season. In this first episode we have three cruise industry experts talking about the new ships coming out in 2025 ...

Royal Caribbean and Carnival keep building larger cruise ships. That's because the very nature of cruising, at least the family-friendly level of cruising has changed. The ships are now the destinations and as much as people care about where they're going ...