AIDAmar in Lisbon

AIDAmar, Aida Cruises newest ship made her inaugural call in Lisbon on 29 and 30 September 2012.

AIDAmar berthed at Alcântara and sailed for the Mediterranean. She will be based in Palma de Mallorca and in the Red Sea.

AIDAmar was delivered in May by the Meyer Werft. ith this new ship the fleet of AIDA Cruises now operates 9 modern ships fully dedicated to the German cruise market.

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AIDAAURA no Tejo

O navio de passageiros de bandeira italiana AIDAAURA fotografado à chegada a Lisboa no passado dia 22 de Agosto de 2012.

The Italian flag passenger ship AIDAAURA photographed at Lisbon on 22 August 2012.

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AIDAVITA on the Tagus

The AIDAVITA arriving in Lisbon for another cruise call on 15 August 2012, photographed underway on the river Tagus about to sail under the 25 April suspension bridge in order to sail upriver and berth at Santa Apolónia Cruise Terminal on the site of the old Companhia Nacional de Navegação terminal, then known as cais da Fundição.

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Tripulante do AIDABELLA evacuado por helicóptero

No dia 02 de Fevereiro de 2012, pelas 19h23, a Marinha, através do Centro de Coordenação de Busca e Salvamento Marítimo de Lisboa (MRCC Lisboa), recebeu uma comunicação telefónica do centro homólogo Alemão, em Bremen, reportando que um tripulante de nacionalidade alemã, com 54 anos de idade, a bordo do navio de bandeira italiana “AIDA BELLA”, que se encontrava a navegar a 175 milhas a Sudoeste do Cabo Espichel, necessitava de evacuação médica devido a um AVC Hemorrágico.

Após contacto do INEM com o navio, foi confirmada a necessidade de evacuação médica.

De imediato o MRCC Lisboa empenhou um helicóptero EH-101 da Força Aérea Portuguesa, que descolou do Montijo às 20h56m, o tripulante foi resgatado e transportado para o AT-1, pelas 23h38, onde o aguardava uma ambulância do INEM que o transportou para o Hospital de Santa Maria, em situação estável.

Fotografia do paquete AIDABELLA a sair de Lisboa na tarde de 3 de Fevereiro de 2012, fotografado de bordo do NRP SAGRES que momentos depois da fotografia foi cumprimentado pela paquete com três apitos de cortesia.

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AIDAbella at Funchal

AIDAbella berthed at Funchal on 30 November 2011 on one of her regular cruises based in the Canary Islands.

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Sempre o Tejo

O Porto de Lisboa ao fim do dia com cores de inverno a saudar a navegação de saída. Neste caso, o paquete alemão de bandeira italiana AIDAbella deixando o Tejo a 2 de Dezembro rumo a Cádis. Dentro de dias estará de volta que os navios da AIDA são grandes  apreciadores de Lisboa e do Funchal...

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Cruise ships in and out of Funchal

Busy cruise shipping scene off Funchal harbour, Madeira Island on 27 November 2011 with SAGA RUBY II leaving while AIDAsol arrives followed by the Bermuda registered Cunard QUEEN VICTORIA. 

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AIDASOL maiden call in Lisbon

The newest ship in the fleet of AIDA Cruises, AIDAsol, visited Lisbon on 18 and 19 September 2011 on her inaugural call. 

Like her sisters she is a product of the Meyer Werft of Papenburg, Germany.

We had an opportunity to visit the new ship alongside Santa Apolonia Cruise Terminal, and here you may have a selection of photos taken on 19 September.

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AIDAVITA in Lisbon

What a strange world we have now with stupid globalization that gives an Italian flag and registration to a very German passenger and cruise ship: the AIDAVITA is a German cruise product from bow to stern: she was built in Germany, looks German and caters very successfully for the growing German cruise market. Only the flag is Italian, a link to the Carnival Group and their European arm: Costa Cruises.

Well, she was in Lisbon on 19 July 2011 with ARTANIA and I was able to photograph some interesting details that make ships such fantastic creatures and architectural case studies...

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The newest AIDA

Another beautiful ultra modern passenger ship has just started her cruising career: the AIDABLU is the forth ship in the AIDALUNA class but in fact she is an improved AIDALUNA, with an extra deck and larger passenger capacity.
Like her three previous sisters, she is a product of Meyer Werft from Papenburg, probably the best cruise shipbuilder of this bright new age.
Never before where there so many fantastic ships in cruise service. And Lisbon was selected again as a port of call for the maiden voyage.
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AIDABLU arriving Lisbon 14 February 2010

Cruise ship AIDABLU arriving Lisbon on her maiden cruise on 14 February 2010, in very bad weather conditions. After an overnight stay at the Alcântara cruise terminal she departed 15 February for Cadiz.
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ESCALA INAUGURAL DO NOVO AIDABLU EM LISBOA

Chega hoje a Lisboa pelas 17h00 em cruzeiro inaugural, o novo paquete AIDABLU da companhia alemã AIDA CRUISES. O navio atraca em Alcântara e pernoita no Tejo largando pelas 15h00 de 15 de Fevereiro para o Mediterrâneo.

O novo AIDABLU é o sétimo navio novo a integrar a frota da AIDA, empresa do grupo Carnival.

Trata-se do segundo navio de cruzeiros desta empresa a ter o nome AIDABLU, depois do anterior ex-AROSA BLU ex-CROWN PRINCESS de 1990, actualmente a operar na Austrália com o nome PACIFIC JEWEL.

Foto do estaleiro construtor Meyer Weft vendo-se o novo paquete no cais de aprestamento em Papenburg a 7 de Janeiro último.

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AIDALUNA in WARNEMUNDE

AIDA Cruises newest ship, the AIDAluna photographed by my friend Manfred Weiss entering the German port of Warnemunde (Rostock) on 8 May 2009 and departing in the afternoon after passengers visited Rostock or went to Berlin.
Warnemunde is a very popular port on Baltic cruise itineraries.
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AIDAluna em Lisboa

Chegada a Lisboa do novo paquete AIDAluna na segunda escala efectuada no Tejo, a 11-04-2009.
O AIDAluna fez a escala inaugural em Lisboa a 28 e 29 de Março último, no cruzeiro inaugural, de Hamburgo para Palma de Maiorca, onde foi efectuada a cerimónia de baptismo. O navio é o terceiro de uma série iniciada com o AIDAdiva em 2007, a que se seguiu em 2008 o AIDAbella.
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