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Bacardi Expands Cruise Packaging Pact After Carnival Waste Cuts
The model uses reusable four-and-a-half-liter ecoTOTEs, each equal to six standard bottles, with SmartPour dispensing and CircularONE tracking systems.
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Guangzhou Nansha Homeport Prepares for Adora Flora City Debut
Nansha is aligning berth allocation, gangways, shore power and clearance workflows, while coordinating events in Nansha and downtown Guangzhou.
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Huna Totem Scales Back Juneau Cruise Dock as Costs Top $250M
The fifth downtown dock is intended to move anchored ships to direct berthing, eliminating an estimated 2,400 tendering trips a year without raising Juneau’s five-ship daily limit.
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Southampton Study Links Cruise Pollution to Lung Inflammation
Researchers measured air quality at six sites and found the highest concentrations near the cruise terminal area, with vanadium the most enriched element.
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Port of Quebec to Add Shore Power at Berth 30 by 2028
The installation is part of nearly seventy million dollars in Berth thirty spending, where Terminal thirty serves larger ships unable to use the city-center facility near Old Québec.
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Fred. Olsen Becomes First Cruise Line With Silver Carbon Literacy
Fred. Olsen said the program now reaches 40 percent of its workforce and is tied to digitalized shipboard services and artificial intelligence-powered food-waste monitoring on Bolette.
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CLIA Report Details Cruise Lines’ Net-Zero Technology Push
At Ocean Cay in The Bahamas, MSC converted a former sand-dredging site into a sixty-four-square-mile marine reserve after investing more than four hundred million dollars.
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Explora Journeys Unveils Shore Trips for First Alaska Season
Explora III, the brand's first liquefied natural gas-powered ship, recently completed sea trials in the Mediterranean ahead of its scheduled July 24 launch.
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Swan Hellenic’s SH Minerva Earns DCA ESG Certification
The DCA ESG framework evaluates cruise ships against more than 1,200 parameters, including guest areas, maintenance systems and data protection.
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Galveston Plans $40M Pelican Island Berth for Shipbuilding
The plan includes a 1,000-foot berth and a 500-foot dock on Pelican Island, where the port owns 357 waterfront acres, including 100 along Galveston Harbor.
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Port of Skagen to Build 16 MW Shore Power Facility for Cruise Ships
At quay nine, an energy-chain system will be built into the berth so ships connect through electric cable management, keeping long high-voltage cables off the quay.
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Queen Elizabeth Sails Cunard’s Last Scheduled Alaska Season
The twenty-one-night repositioning voyage includes a full Panama Canal transit and calls in Los Angeles, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Quetzal, Panama City and Curaçao.