Yet another Carnival cruise ship is having mechanical problems, the third in a little over a month. It was an added headache for the company whose vessel Triumph suffered an engine fire last month in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving thousands stranded for days without power or working toilets. This time a ship called Legend is having a problem with a unit that affects its sailing speed, said a statement Friday from Carnival, the world's largest cruise ship company.

A Carnival Cruise ship was moored in St Maarten for repairs Thursday with a boatload of passengers, the US Coast Guard said, a month after a hellish ordeal aboard another of its ocean liners. CNN reported that some passengers aboard the Carnival Dream had complained of power outages and toilets not working, but the cruise line said all "hotel systems" were back to normal after some intermittent interruptions.

Miami, Feb 15 (EFE).- The 4,229 exhausted passengers and crew on the disabled cruise ship Triumph are now on their way home from Mobile, Alabama, where they disembarked in the wee hours Friday after almost five grueling days at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. "The 3,143 passengers have now disembarked that were on the Triumph and were taken to hotels or picked up by family members who were waiting for them at the dock" in Mobile, Joyce Oliva, spokeswoman for Carnival Cruise Lines, told Efe on Friday.

A year after the tragic Costa Concordia shipwreck, cruise industry leader Carnival faces a new public relations fiasco that reveals the downsides of the sector's recent high-speed growth. Late Thursday, the company's crippled Triumph limped ashore in Alabama after an engine room fire on Sunday left the ship without the power needed to operate air conditioners, prepare meals or flush toilets. It ended a miserable ordeal for some 4,000 people that had triggered days of news reports around the world about the disastrous hygiene conditions on board.