China’s first specialist vertical online platform for cruise services YLLY.com announced that it received an A Series financing from Sunflower Capital.
Carnival Corp is teaming up with two Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to set up a joint venture worth 2.6 billion pounds．
China’s cruise industry is booming and global cruise giants like Carnival Corp about upcoming strategic deployments in the China.
Shanghai overtook New York to become the eight busiest cruise port in the world, with 240 cruises using Shanghai as home port in 2014, a growth of 42.9% y-o-y.
Sanya Hainan is planning to upgrade the Phoenix Island International Cruise Port as a cruise economic zone.
Japan has implemented a visa-free policy for cruise ship passengers from China aboard ships approved by the Japanese Minister of Justice
Royal Caribbean will launch the Quantum of the Seas liner to mark its 2015 China investment plan, and management has dubbed this year the ‘Quantum Year’.
2015 – the number of liners using Chinese home ports will increase from 8 to 12 ships and more than one million Chinese passengers will take cruises.
