PONANT has unveiled exclusive voyages to the majestic Emperor Penguin colonies of Snow Hill Island during their 2025 Antarctic season.

PONANT has released its Antarctic 2025/26 program, spanning October 2025 to March 2026 with 34 departures sailing eight itineraries aboard PONANT Sisterships – Le Boréal, Le Soléal, L’Austral and Le Lyrial, as well as six departures aboard Le Commandant Charcot, the world’s only luxury icebreaker.

CT Partners spent three days in Christchurch, New Zealand last week with 11 members from the consortia enjoying a famil hosted by PONANT and Emirates.

PONANT has launched sales aboard luxury icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot to the Baffin Sea for Arctic summer 2025, where being alone on the edge of the world is a promise.

Le Commandant Charcot to embark on world-first expedition to St Lawrence River during heart of Boreal Winter

PONANT has announced a special promotion in celebration of its 35th anniversary. Guests can enjoy an extra 10% savings on more than 200 departures to a variety of captivating destinations around the world, including The Kimberley, Antarctica, Alaska, Seychelles, Japan’s old sea routes and subtropical islands, Melanesia, the European Arctic, the Mediterranean and more.

PONANT is celebrating 35 years in 2023, revealing a new global media campaign that carries the tagline of “Nature is our guide”. The promotion was previewed to Australian media last week in Sydney by Hervé Gastinel, CEO of PONANT — who also revealed further details about the next vessel in the French luxury expedition cruise line’s fleet, Ship 14.

Almost a century after Explorer Umberto Nobile crossed the Artic via the North Pole aboard the Norge airship, PONANT is preparing to set a new record as the first cruise line to sail through both geographic and magnetic North poles in one journey, setting sail in September 2024.

Abercrombie & Kent has chartered the inaugural departure of Le Commandant Charcot’s North Pole Expedition Cruise: The Ultimate Frontier, departing on 10 July 2024. A&K’s award-winning Expedition Team will be on board the 18 day, $77,7680 per person expedition, leading the way to the northernmost point on the planet.

Having firmly established a foothold in the expedition space, Ponant Asia Pacific is set to place a greater emphasis on filling the French luxury cruise line’s yachting program, new regional head, Chris Hall, says.

Ponant’s luxury icebreaker, Le Commandant Charcot, made its first-ever voyage to the Oceania region this week, with the 240-passenger French-flagged ship docking in Lyttelton on Sunday. Le Commandant Charcot arrived into Christchurch’s cruise port following a 3.5-week half circumnavigation of Antarctica from Ushuaia, Argentina sailing through Marie Byrd Land and the Ross Sea.

PONANT’s Le Commandant Charcot, the world’s only luxury icebreaker, has been able to give her guests one of the most exclusive wildlife viewing experiences on the planet – reaching the emperor penguin colony on Snow Hill Island, in the Weddell Sea, on two unique voyages.