U.K. ‘s Mail Online has an informative article in its Sunday edition today addressing the use of bunker fuels by cruise ships and other large shipping vessels entitled "How 16 Ships Create As Much Pollution As All The Cars In The World."
I wrote about the cruise industry’s use of bunker fuels in a blog
Royal Caribbean’s new "Genesis" class cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, arrived this morning in Port Everglades (Fort Lauderdale, Florida).
It looks big.
Here are two videos. The first by the Miami Herald shows the arrival of the cruise ship in port. The second by CBS News, featuring Peter Greenberg, is an introductory piece.
Prayers for
Over the past week, those of you who read my blog but don’t Twitter missed the remarkable phenomenon of bickering between a small group of travel bloggers invited by Princess Cruises to promote cruising under the hash tag #followmeatsea – and a larger group of green travelers who could not stomach the wow-cruising-is-amazing tone of the tweets.
"Bickering" may be an understatement. The
Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas coming to a port near you . . .
HOLY CRAP!!!
Here’s my take: Monster of the Seas – a Cruise Line Only Gordon Gekko Could Love . . .
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Oasis of the Seas DailyMail.co.uk "Inside the world’s biggest and most expensive ever cruise ship, the £810million Oasis of
This morning I read an interesting article regarding the cruise industry’s nasty practice of dumping raw sewage just three miles offshore and, sometimes, in state waters.
Fox News ran an article entitled "Federal Agencies Raise Alarm About Cruise Dumping." Its "fair and balanced" report included some disturbing facts:
"Raw sewage contains disease pathogens and toxins, impairs the respiratory
I read an interesting articleby a staff writer for the Take Part Blog about nasty discharges by cruise ships. The article is entilted "Cruise Ship Environmental Report Card Grim."
Hamida Kinge was a 2008/09 Environmental Reporting Fellow for the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting and a 2009 Fellow at the Scripps Howard Institute on the
Earlier this month, I announced that I will be awarding the "Worst Cruise Line in the World" award to the cruise line demonstrating the worst in gross negligence and indifference towards passenger and crew member health and safety. This will be a monthly award.
Over the past month, we have received many e-mails nominating a variety of cruise lines and a
Today Carnival issued a press release which reported profits of $1,100,000,000 for the third quarter ending August 31, 2009. The cruise line collected revenues from passengers of over $4,000,000,000 in the last three months.
This announcement of Carnival’s over-a-billion-dollars-in-profits comes two days after the Carnival dominated "Alaska" Cruise Association filed a lawsuit against Alaska over the $50-a-passenger tax.
Four days ago, the
The cruise industry has picked a fight with Alaska over the $50 tax designed to protect the state. The lawsuit, which is posted online, indicates that the lawsuit was filed by a trade organization called, interesting enough, the "Alaska Cruise Association."
"Alaskan Cruise Association" – Made in Miami, Florida
There is nothing remotely "Alaskan" about the "Alaska Cruise Association" (ACA). The ACA is
Cruise fans, travel agents and cruise communities have been abuzz in anticipation of Royal Caribbean’s new cruise ship – the "Oasis of the Seas." "Amazing! . . Wow! . . Look at that!" . . . have been the extent of the popular media’s insight into this new super mega ship.
But a few journalists have questioned the environmental appropriateness of this monster of a cruise ship.
KTUU Channel 2 in Anchorage Alaska reports that the cruise industry has filed suit to avoid paying Alaska’s head count tax. In an article entitled "Sources: Cruise Ship Industry Files Suit Over Head Tax," Channel 2 reports that cruise lines are trying to avoid the $46 infrastructure tax levied at Alaska ports which the cruise ships use. The cruise industry
