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American Cruise Lines Adds Sheboygan to Great Lakes Schedule
American Patriot is scheduled to dock along South Pier on a nine-day Lake Michigan and Upper Peninsula itinerary, with up to 130 guests expected ashore June 26.
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American Cruise Lines Plans 13 Muscatine Riverboat Calls in 2026
The vessels are set to arrive the evening before each port date and depart at 1 p.m., with no public tours of the ships offered.
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American Patriot Returns Cruise Traffic to Rochester After Six Years
Passengers were greeted by Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony reenactors before local stops at the Susan B. Anthony House and George Eastman House.
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American Cruise Lines Adds Fleetwide America250 Programming
The Great United States Cruise is slated to run from Portland, Oregon, to Boston, visiting eighteen states on three ships and including Boston Harbor fireworks on July Fourth.
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New York Sets 2028 Opening for Buffalo Outer Harbor Cruise Terminal
Visit Buffalo Niagara expects seven cruise calls in Western New York this year, with a potential regional economic impact of about one million dollars.
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American Encore Marks Idaho’s First Riverboat Christening
Former United States Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers served as godmother and performed the bottle break after the ship began a nine-day Columbia and Snake rivers cruise from Stevenson.
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Judge Limits Bar Harbor Cruise Passenger Cap to July and August
The town's 2026 cruise schedule lists sixty-seven ship visits and just under fifty thousand possible passengers, with estimated revenue of 255,231 dollars.
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Petersburg Approves 50-Year Lease for American Cruise Lines Dock
Petersburg’s deal reflects how smaller Alaska ports are courting cruise growth on their own terms, balancing tourism demand with working harbor needs.
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Great Lakes Cruising Poised for Record $300 Million Impact in 2026
The forecast signals how the Great Lakes are moving from niche itineraries to a fuller cruise market, giving inland ports a larger stake in seasonal tourism.
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New Bedford Deal Brings American Cruise Lines Back to Pier 3
The Pier 3 workaround shows how aging waterfront infrastructure can quickly disrupt coastal cruise itineraries, pushing ports to balance tourism dollars with working-harbor priorities.
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American Encore Begins Panama Canal Delivery Voyage to Columbia River
The new vessel underscores the company’s bet on premium, United States-built river cruising as Pacific Northwest itineraries draw demand and spur investment in small ports.
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Port of Mobile Sees First Simultaneous Docking by Two Cruise Lines
Mobile’s dual-ship day hints at a Gulf Coast cruise rebound, as big-line homeporting and boutique itineraries give the region more ways to capture tourism dollars.