The class of 2026 makes one thing clear: cruise ships are no longer one-size-fits-all. There's a spectrum of choices shaped by taste and travel style.

More cruise ship outbreaks were reported in 2025 than in the past two years, but cruisers shouldn’t be too worried just yet.

The Viking Ship Museum in Denmark recently announced an unprecedented discovery in the Øresund Strait: the world’s largest and most advanced medieval cargo ship ever found.

Finland has detained a ship and its crew after a critical undersea telecommunication cable connecting the country to Estonia was damaged Wednesday, Finnish authorities said.

What makes the win interesting is that it’s not new. Bolt has now taken the top spot five years in a row, earning the title every single year since it first debuted aboard Mardi Gras in 2021. In other words, it's a certified fan-favorite.

The Christmas photos of the Chinese civilian-looking cargo ship that appears to be weaponized are real. It's sitting exactly where analysts say it is – the Hudong–Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. And yes,

The listing could make it more challenging for U.S. forces to board the ship, which an arm of the Kremlin’s maritime authority says is now flying the Russian flag.

Taken together, the rapid reconfiguration of a commercial cargo ship into both a missile platform and a potential drone carrier underscores a broader message: China may be signaling its ability to quickly convert elements of its vast commercial fleet into combat-capable platforms.

China’s surface combatants are set to receive a new hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) capability following the finalization tests of the YJ-20 from a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) destroyer.

A ship carrying nearly 40 scientists from across the globe is now heading straight to the "Doomsday Glacier" in Antarctica.