Princess Cruise Line Alaska
EPA Seeks Penalties For Cruise Ships Air Pollution
“We’re continuing to monitor the cruise ships and if we find they’re breaking the law, we’ll take strong action. The bottom line is that the people of Alaska demand that the cruise ship companies obey pollution laws. Of course our preference is for the cruise ship companies to comply with the law rather than violate it.” ... The Alaska office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the agency has proposed a $110,000 penalty against Princess Cruises, Inc. and a $55,000 penalty against Norwegian Cruise Line Limited for violating Alaska clean air standards last summer. ... [Read More]
Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd. — Background, Legal Issues, and Implications for Persons with Disabilities
Given their lucrative ties to the United States market, it is hardly surprising that the major cruise lines all maintain their principal offices in the United States. For example, NCL has its corporate headquarters in Miami 17 and employs approximately 1200 personnel throughout the United States. 18 Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise line company in the world, has several offices in the U.S., as well as personnel and properties scattered throughout the country. 19 Carnival owns twelve cruise brands, including Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, and Windstar Cruises, all of which operate in North America, and which together employ approximately 8500 full-time and 2500 part-time/seasonal employees in shore side operations. 20 Holland America, Princess Tours (a division of Princess Cruises), and Windstar lease 179,000 square feet of office space in Seattle for their headquarters operations. Princess Cruises leases an additional 282,000 square feet of ... [Read More]
Vessel Sanitation Program - Investigation - Regal Princess 1998
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) is assisting Health Canada in investigating outbreaks of gastroenteritis (vomiting ordiarrhea) in three consecutive cruises of the Regal Princess sailing fromVancouver and Alaska. The dates of the cruises were June 7-14, June 14-21, and June 21-28.At least 270 persons became ill and reported to the ship's medical staff during the threecruises. ... The outbreak is suspected to be causedby a small round structured virus (SRSV) commonly known as a "Norwalk" virus . Itis unusual for a gastroenteritis outbreak of magnitude aboard a cruise line to beassociated with this virus. By analyzing questionnaires from passengers who were onthe last cruise, epidemiologists are trying to determine how the ill passengers wereexposed to the virus. ... [Read More]
Statement of the Federal Trade Commission
Cruising is a complex market. The cruise lines sell a large number of different products at an even larger number of price points. A single cruise ship contains several different types of cabins, ranging from small interior cabins to luxurious upper-deck suites with balconies. Moreover, even a single cruise line's own ships vary substantially in age, size, and on-board amenities, such as pools, spas, internet cafes, ice-skating rinks, casinos, shopping malls, and more. Within a single cruise line, cruises vary substantially in itineraries and offer diverse opportunities for accompanying land experiences (including, among many others, hiking or mountain-biking on Caribbean islands; trekking to interior Alaska by train; exploring ancient Mayan ruins; touring historic European cities; and the more traditional sand-and-surf recreation offered on many Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Mexican beaches). The different cruise lines pursue heterogeneous pricing strategies, follow disparate itinera ... [Read More]
Visiting Seattle - Seattle 101, A Guide for Travelers and Tourists
The Port of Seattle, which runs SeaTac Airport, also runs Seattle's ports, both for maritime trade and leisure activities. In 2005, Seattle will welcome over 170 cruise ship visits. Celebrity Cruises and Norweigan Cruise Line dock at the Bell Street Pier Cruise Terminal at Pier 66, which is on the Elliott Bay waterfront at the northern end of downtown Seattle. Holland America Line and Princess Cruises dock at the Terminal 30 Cruise Terminal, at the sound end of Seattle's downtown waterfront. There are bus, taxi and shuttle connections at both piers to you get to your Seattle destination. From Pier 66, there is also a streetcar that runs along a mile stretch of the downtown waterfront. ... [Read More]
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park: Administrative History (Chapter 3)
Skagway also began to see additional cruise ships. In 1963 theCanadian Pacific replaced the Princess Louise with the Princess Patricia . [ 31 ] Chuck Westand his Alaska Cruise Line also arranged for a third ship, the PolarStar , to serve the gold rush city. More cruise ships joined thefray in 1969. [ 32 ] ... There were relatively few ways, however, for tourists to visitSkagway. Many tourists drove the Alaska Highway, then took the WhitePass and Yukon Route railway south from Whitehorse or Carcross. Othersflew in from Juneau on an Alaska Airlines Twin Otter which servedSkagway on a daily basis, weather permitting. [ 28 ] But the only maritime vessels visitingSkagway in the early 1960s were the Prince George , a smallCanadian National cruise ship serving the Inside Passage since 1948; the Princess Kathleen and the Princess Louise , CanadianPacific ships which began their tenure during the mid-1950s; the Glacier Queen and the Yukon Star , from Chuck West's AlaskaCruise Line, which had served the port since 1957; and the M/V Chilkat , a small ferry which connected Skagway with Haines andJuneau. [ 29 ] ... [Read More]
Scientific Publications by NCEH Authors in 1990
NCEH Health Line ... Toll-free telephone number for informationand faxes on childhood lead poisoning, cruise ship inspection,cholesterol measurements,and list of publications: ... [Read More]
U.S EPA, Union Pacific, BNSF and SJVAPCD kick off diesel reduction in Central Valley - News Releases - Region 9 - EPA
Seattle - Princess Cruises and the Port of Seattle announced a proposed $1.8 million shore power project. Two cruise liners, Diamond Princess and Sapphire Princess will be connected to the Seattle electric grid to eliminate "hotelling" emissions for 100 percent of cruise liner traffic in downtown Seattle. ... Today as part of the Collaborative kickoff in Bakersfield, the EPA awarded $75,000 grant to Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe to reduce diesel pollution on rail lines in the San Joaquin Valley. This announcement was one of eight made in cities along the West Coast all aimed at getting voluntary diesel reductions sooner than the deadlines set by the EPA's stringent new diesel standards that begin to take effect in 2008. ... [Read More]
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