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Is This Cruise Ship Tourist Guilty Of Felony Stupidity? gCaptain Says Yes

By On August 14, 2011

In November of last year Rick Ehlert, a passenger on Holland America’s Ryndam, did something incredibly stupid. Drunk and in a mischievous mood Mr. Ehlert broke into the ship’s control room, [...]

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MS Amsterdam to go around the world in 112 days

By On August 19, 2010

Forget around the world in 180 days, this is the future. Today, Holland America announced that, departing in January, the MS Amsterdam will set sail on a 112-day circumnavigation of [...]

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Holland America – Nieuw Amsterdam

By On July 11, 2010

Nieuw Amsterdam – 1905: “Built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast, Holland America’s first Nieuw Amsterdam was launched in 1905 and made her maiden voyage from Rotterdam to New York [...]

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Naval Architecture – Designing A Quiet Ship.

By On November 1, 2009

No this isn’t going to be a post about china’s new submarines…. instead we look at designing ships to be quiet for more relaxing purposes. Eurodam News, Holland America’s newbuild [...]

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Marine Finance 101: Buying A Cruise Ship

By On December 5, 2008

Photo by Crusair Eurodam News, a blog following the construction of the brand new Holland America Lines’ cruise ship M/V Eurodam, recently featured a very interesting post by the company’s [...]

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Lastest Ship Technology Beneath The Waterline – Photos

By On October 24, 2007

Pieter Rijkaart, Holland America Line’s director of newbuilds, just provided this image of Eurodam’s recently installed Azipods. Eurodam News, the official Holland America blog documenting the building of the cruise [...]

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World Largest Cruise Ships – Coming Soon

By On October 22, 2007

The Cincinnati Enquirer as us: “As new cruise ships continue to get larger, it begs the question: Is bigger better?” I admittedly don’t know much about cruise ship operations but [...]

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