Carnival Cruise Line has announced it will bring back year-round deployment of cruises from the Mobile terminal. David Clark, president and CEO of Visit Mobile, celebrated the announcement this morning at the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association Conference with Ugo Savino,

Carnival Valor will sail year-round from Mobile, Ala., starting May 2027, on itineraries to The Bahamas, marking the first Conquest-class ship to homeport there.

The Carnival Valor will arrive at the Alabama port for year-round cruising on May 15, 2027. The Valor will be the first Conquest-class ship to homeport in Mobile and is an 856-passenger capacity increase from the Carnival Spirit, which currently sails from Mobile.

Carnival Cruise Line has once more confirmed how tips are added to, not subtracted from, crew member salaries.

For the first time since COVID shut everything down, Carnival Cruise Line is making Mobile a main port of call.

After surpassing 2024’s record-high levels in September, cruise ship gastrointestinal illness outbreaks have hit a new record with two months left in 2025. With a new outbreak reported in October, the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program has now investigated 20 cruise ship outbreaks in 2025, up from 18 in 2024.

Norfolk will soon see a major boost in cruising activity, with Carnival Cruise Line‘s popular ship Carnival Freedom homeporting there in 2027 and Norwegian Cruise Line‘s Norwegian Pearl making 20 calls that same year. Carnival Cruise announced the news ...

Carnival Cruise Line has announced its next wave of 2027-28 deployments, including the return of year-round deployment in Mobile, Alabama, expanding its capacity in the region with a Conquest-class ship sailing from the home port for the first time.

Carnival Cruise Line honored its 25th anniversary of sailing out of Galveston this past weekend with a celebration. The Saturday celebration took place aboard the Carnival Jubilee, which debuted in 2023 in Galveston and has a Texas star on its bow.

Authorities are looking for a Carnival Cruise Line passenger who went missing in Bonaire. Jessica Collins, a 47-year-old American guest sailing on Carnival Horizon, did not return to the ship following its Sept. 17 stop in the Caribbean island, according to a government news release.

When Carnival Cruise Line brings year-round sailings back to Mobile in 2027, it will also introduce the largest ship ever to homeport in the Alabama port city. The Miami-based company announced Tuesday that the Carnival Valor will begin offering a variety of six- to eight-day sailings from Mobile visiting The Bahamas,