Canada’s obnoxiously handsome PM, Justin Trudeau, has chucked a spanner in the works for cruise fanatics over on that side of the globe.

Sycamore Partners has wasted no time since announcing its acquisition of Azamara. Staff have even managed to fit in a couple of celebratory pub lunches.

New year, new cruise resumption dates for several Carnival Corp brands, so tell your clients they won’t need to add seasickness tablets to their shopping lists anytime soon.

Princess Cruises’ leading lady has climbed Carnival’s leadership ladder once more.

Another day, another cruise pause update from your trusty buddies at Travel Weekly. You can thank us by sending cupcakes and a bottle of vodka.

The cruise giant has disclosed a data breach exposing client data to a third party, who we assume looks exactly like the hooded figure in the accompanying image.

No, your eyes are not deceiving you – we’ve published our Wednesday Cruise Wrap on a Thursday this week! And, as you can imagine, it has led to complete and total anarchy in the Travel Weekly office.

Travel Weekly is tickled pink to present you with this week’s Cruise Wrap, and that’s not only because it was the last thing standing between us and lunch.

This week’s Cruise Wrap is one of our longest yet, with enough information to fill the Pacific Ocean. Or maybe just the Tasman Sea. It will fill your kitchen sink, at least.

Did you get a tear in your eye when HAL recently revealed it had sold its beloved Rotterdam? Wipe it away with this.

With Carnival recently announcing it would look to offload 13 ships, the curtain has been pulled back to reveal where some of those vessels are headed.

In sad news for Holland America Line loyalists, the cruise line is waving farewell to four of its vessels.