Cruise ships

Regent Seven Seas Cruises offers a 128-night around-the-world voyageon the Seven Seas Navigator in 2017. The ship debarks from Miami on January 5, 2017, but the price of the cruise doesn’t come cheap with fares starting at $54,999. Fares include meals, shore excursions and first-class air fare with passengers allowed to upgrade to packages that offer more in-depth tours.

By Stathis Kousounis

The cruise sector in Greece will remain in positive territory this year, according to the estimates of the cruise sector expert at the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises, Andreas Stylianopoulos, who foresees a healthy rise in passengers from the United States.

Around 3,000 tourists reached Irakleio, Crete on Sunday to board two cruise ships, essentially inaugurating the cruise season in the large island’s largest city.

Aida Vita, which docked in the port after five years and unloaded more than 1,300 passengers, was joined by Celestyal Olympia, which transported around 1,600 passengers.

The Regional Authority of the Aegean on Friday approved funding of 35,000 euros to provide assistance to 227 passengers and the crew aboard the Vitsentzos Kornaros passenger ferry, which ran aground on Thursday near the port of the southeastern Aegean island of Kasos.

Carnival Cruise's Carnival Vista sea cruise vessel will use Greece's main Piraeus port as an arrival and departure port as of Spring 2016 for its Mediterranean Sea voyage.

Famous New York-based photographer Jeffrey Milstein loves ships, colors and aerial photos. He managed to combined all of his passions to take pictures of the largest, most beautiful and modern cruise ships on the planet, hanging out from a helicopter door.

Three crew members of the fated Sea Diamond cruise liner, which sank off the island of Santorini in 2007, causing the death of two people, faced a Piraeus appeals court on Tuesday after the Supreme Court partially upheld their appeals against their conviction on charges of negligence.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

Work gets under way on the expansion of the cruise terminal in Piraeus this year, set to make it the biggest cruise hub in the Eastern Mediterranean, allowing for the docking of the biggest and best cruise ships, whose length exceeds 300 meters.

The investment is worth 136 million euros, which is 95 percent subsidized by the European Union.

The body of a 25-year-old British man, who worked on a sailing boat offering cruises for tourists off the coast of Leonidio in the Peloponnese, was discovered off the port of Plaka early on Thursday by his crew.

The man is believed to have drowned by accident but a coroner was to determine the cause of death.

Five people found guilty last year for their part in the sinking of the Sea Diamond cruise ship off Santorini in 2007, which caused the deaths of two passengers, were cleared on appeal Friday but the convictions of three others were not overturned.