The 2011/2012 cruise season in Buenos Aires officially opens next Wednesday with the arrival of the Norwegian flagged ‘Fram’. Until next May, 158 calls are expected in the port of Buenos Aires totaling 400.000 visitors which represents a 15 percent and 21 percent increase respectively over the previous season.

Even the biggest cruise ships will be able to dock easily at Don Diego and Sans Souci ports during their tours of the Caribbean islands, after by the end of November the company CMP International concludes the dredging the harbor of the Ozama river on the  Caribbean.

Helsinki-based Kristina Cruises for the first time is deploying one of its ships to the Caribbean. Operating as chartered fly-cruise packages with Finnair, the line’s 400-passenger Kristina Katarina will sail a series of Eastern Caribbean cruises roundtrip from Barbados and from the Dominican Republic through February.

Royal Caribbean International is returning the Freedom-class Independence of the Seas to Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. for the winter 2012-13 season. Vacationers will have a choice of three Freedom-class ships offering a variety of exciting Eastern and Western Caribbean itineraries, sailing from Port Canaveral aboard Freedom of the Seas and Port Everglades aboard Independence of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas. Independence of the Seas’ winter 2012-13 Caribbean season is now open for booking.

Visits by cruise ships to St. Kitts’ Port Zante pick up momentum from November 1 and will continue for the next few months for the 2011/2012 Cruise Ship Season. An estimated 625,000 passengers are expected between October 2011 and September 2012.

The FBI says a mother whose newborn baby was found dead on the Carnival Dream cruise ship has returned to the United States. An FBI spokesman said Monday that the 20-year-old woman returned to the United States late Sunday after being detained by Dutch authorities in St. Maarten.