Mauricio Ruiz is a writer and journalist who has lived in the US, Belgium, Mexico and Norway. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Catapult, The Common, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, JMWW, River Teeth, Literal Magazine, among others. He's been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Myriad Editions Competition in the UK, as well as the Fish Short Story Prize in Ireland. He has received fellowships from OMI writers (NY), Société des auteurs (Belgium), Jakob Sande (Norway), Can Serrat (Spain), and the Three Seas' Council (Rhodes). His second book, Silencios al sur, was published in early 2017, and his work has partially been translated into Dutch and French. Mauricio Ruiz can be followed on Twitter and Instagram.
US health authorities have warned people not to travel on cruise ships, even if they have been vaccinated against Covid-19. This is in light of the […]
EU leaders and representatives from the cruise industry will meet during a high-level meeting, on 1 March, to debate destination management in cruise tourism and ways […]
Princess Cruises has unveiled the itinerary for its 111-day World Cruise 2024, which opens for sale on November 11, 2021. The voyage will be operated by […]
The number of cruise passengers passing through EU ports dropped 91% between 2019 and 2020, to 1.3 million, recent data from the Eurostat has revealed. Although […]
The cruise industry’s first hybrid ship will be unveiled in the summer of 2023 as part of Royal Caribbean Group’s Silversea Cruises luxury cruise brand. The […]
International cruise industry professionals will gather on November 17 and 18 in Madrid for another edition of the International Cruise Summit. After the success of the […]
The Shape, named by its Rome-based team, is dazzling boat designers across the world with its innovative design and sumptuous accommodations. Still a concept, the luxurious […]
From mid-November, the Seychelles will welcome vessels with a maximum of 300 passengers for the 2021-2022 cruise ship season, said a top official. This resumes port […]
Royal Caribbean has announced that passengers over the age of 2 will have to provide a negative coronavirus test before boarding, regardless of their vaccination status. […]
On Thursday July 15th, Canada’s Minister of Transport, Omar Algebra, announced that cruise ships can resume sailing in Canada as of November 1st. All cruise lines, […]
The Italian government has announced a total ban on large cruise ships from the historic area of Venice. The ban was announced on Tuesday and will come into effect on […]
From September onwards cruise company Princess Cruises will resume sailings from USA ports in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Fort Lauderdale, for vaccinated passengers. 1. Sailings […]
Authorities in Hong Kong are aiming to reopen the cruise sector toward the end-July. Two cruise lines have received a green light to resume short sailings […]
The legend of the RMS Titanic, the ‘unsinkable’ passenger ship that sank in the Atlantic early one morning in April 1912, is destined to outlive the […]