FleetMon Maritime Gallery April 2021

April 27th, 2021 in Community by Tanja Lohrmann

Oh, how we miss those giant cruise liners arriving at and departing from the cruise terminal of Rostock Warnemünde. Did you know that Rostock’s economy is dominated by shipbuilding, tourism and navigation? 119 cruise liners visited the port of Rostock in 2019. In contrast to 2020, when only 11 cruise liners entered the cruise terminal of Rostock Warnemünde. The pandemic has been hitting the cruise industry hard and prevented most cruise liners to travel the Seven Seas.

Welcome to the second edition of the FleetMon Maritime Gallery. Each month, you’ll find a special section on our blog featuring the Best Maritime Photos in a certain category. You’ll not only get to view the most popular photos being voted by our community for “Photo of the Week” and “Photo of the Month”. We also present special shots which are less popular but in the same way extraordinary.

In April, we present a selection of the best cruise liner photos in our monthly Maritime Gallery. All cruise fans will love that. Have fun and enjoy great vessel photography!

ALBATROS

Ship spotter bassheiner took this photo of Cruise liner ALBATROS being built in 1973. It has been voted for “Photo of the Month” in August 2020. The photo was taken in July 2020 in Bremen. At the moment, the 205m long ship is located in El Ghardaqa, Egypt waiting for the pandemic to end.

ASTOR

The photo of CMV’s Cruise liner ASTOR was taken by ship spotter U-kasz who signed up in 2009 and uploaded almost 6000 vessel photos to FleetMon.com. Cruise & Maritime Voyages was a British passenger shipping company headquartered in Essex, United Kingdom. It was the largest cruise line to go out of business during the coronavirus pandemic. ASTOR has been sold off for $1,710,000, and has been scrapped in the scrapping yard in Aliaga, Turkey.

EUROPA 2

Ship spotter PW1304 captured Cruise liner EUROPA 2 in the golden sunlight at the Cruise terminal in Hamburg Altona. The photo was uploaded to FleetMon in November 2019 and was voted “Picture of the Week” by the community right away. The Malta-flagged vessel was built in 2013 and is cruising around the Canary Islands at the moment.

NORWEGIAN DREAM

What a great shot of Cruise liner SUPERSTAR GEMINI, former NORWEGIAN DREAM! Ship spotter insel joined FleetMon.com in 2008 and uploaded more than 3500 vessel photos. He took this photo of the 1992-built cruise ship in 2007. In 2013, the vessel’s name was changed to Superstar Gemini. At the moment, the 230m long Cruise liner is located in Port Klang in Malaysia.