I could not believe my eyes when I read the headline in the Bradenton Herald this morning: “Raising Sunshine Skyway Bridge Could Accommodate Jumbo Cruise Ships.”
Is this some type of April Fools joke?
Apparently not. The newspaper reports that the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is studying whether to raise the Sunshine
A local news station in Houston is reporting that for the first time, a cruise ship has sailed from its home port at the Bayport Cruise Terminal in Houston. Princess Cruises’ Caribbean Princess set sail earlier this week for a four day cruise to Progresso, Mexico.
The remarkable part of the story is that the
A year ago, Carnival Cruise Line unexpectedly abandoned Mobile, Alabama as a cruise port.
Carnival cited rising fuel costs and an inability to raise prices for its cruises out of the cruise terminal in Alabama. The unexpected news shocked local officials in Mobile which had worked for a decade to lure the cruise line to