Princess Cruise Alaska
EPA, Governor, Mayor Help Kick-Start Electrification of Docked Princess Cruise Ships
Princess will spend between $1.5 and $1.8 million to enable the Diamond Princess and the Sapphire Princess to run on electricity while in port in Seattle. Because the ships will not need to run their engines while docked, it is estimated this project will reduce by over one-third the air emissions from cruise ships stopping in Seattle. ... The U.S Environmental Protection Agency today announced it will make a $50,000 grant to Seattle City Light to provide the equipment needed for two Princess Cruise ships to shut down their engines while docked at the Port of Seattle's Pier 30. ... [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]
Dissenting Statement of Commissioners Sheila F. Anthony and Mozelle W. Thompson
While many elements play into the pricing decisions made throughout the cruise sales cycle, a relevant factor in many decisions is pricing by competing cruise lines. Both documentary and testimonial evidence indicate that the parties expend a substantial amount of effort toward monitoring each other's prices, and have at times adjusted their prices in response to price changes by cruise competitors. Travel agents, who book the vast majority of cruises, also facilitate price competition by communicating competing offers to rival cruise lines. ... [Read More]
Statement of the Federal Trade Commission
A cruise is only one of many options available to consumers taking vacations. Nevertheless, largely because of its increasing affordability, cruising is also a rapidly expanding industry, with a steadily growing share of an "all-vacation" market. Thus, at any given time, much of the demand for cruising comes from consumers who have never cruised before and have chosen previously to spend their vacation time and money elsewhere. In addition, although consumers who take a cruise typically enjoy the experience and state that they are likely to cruise again, repurchase frequencies are low. For example, even customers whom the cruise lines consider "frequent cruisers" typically take only one cruise every few years. Thus, cruising is unlike an expanding market in which consumers adopt a superior new technology or product and generally do not switch back: consumers who become cruise customers continue to patronize other forms of vacation. (7) ... [Read More]
Passenger Vessel Access Advisory Committee Members
American Sail Training Association American Society of Travel Agents BB Riverboats Boston Commission for Persons with Disabilities Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating International Council of Cruise Lines National Tour Association Paralyzed Veterans of America Passenger Vessel Association Port of San Francisco Princess Cruises Rhode Island Tourism Division Self Help for Hard of Hearing People Society for the Advancement of Travel for the Handicapped Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Southeast Alaska Independent Living ... [Read More]
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American Classic Voyages, Debra Contreras (Vice-Chair), Chicago, IL American Council of the Blind, Melanie Brunson, Washington, DC American Sail Training Association, Louis Linden, Baltimore, MD American Society of Travel Agents, Wayne Nelson, Alexandria, VA BB Riverboats, Alan Bernstein, Covington, KY Boston Commission for Persons with Disabilities, Stephen Spinetto (Chair), Boston, MA Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating, Inc., Donald Backe, Annapolis, MD International Council of Cruise Lines, Ted Thompson, Washington, DC National Tour Association, Christopher Shepler, Mackinaw City, MI Paralyzed Veterans of America, Christine Griffin, Boston, MA Passenger Vessel Association, John Waterhouse, Seattle, WA Port of San Francisco, Richard Skaff, San Francisco, CA Princess Cruises, Janice Tuck, Los Angeles, CA Rhode Island Tourism Division, Robert Gearing, Providence, RI Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc., Susan Finisdore, Washington, DC Society for the Advancement ... [Read More]
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 Department of Environmental Conservation is leading an Alaska Cruise Ship Initiative with representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, EPA, the Southeast Conference, the public, and the cruise ship industry to develop voluntary measures to address pollution problems associated with cruise ships. ... [Read More]
NTSB Abstract MAR-97/02
As a result of its investigation, the NationalTransportation Safety Board issued safety recommendations to the U.S. CoastGuard, the State pilot commissions, the Alaska Board of Marine Pilots,the Southeastern Alaska Pilots Association, the Alaska Coastwise PilotAssociation, the San Diego Bay Pilots Association, Inc., Princess CruiseLines, the American Pilots' Association, and the International Councilof Cruise Lines. ... Abstract: On June 23, 1995, the passengervessel Star Princess, traveling from Skagway to Juneau, Alaska,grounded on Poundstone Rock in Lynn Canal, about 21 miles northwest ofJuneau. The vessel's bottom sustained significant damage. No injuries ordeaths resulted from this accident. The total cost resulting from requiredrepairs and the delay before the vessel could return to service was estimatedat $27.16 million. ... [Read More]
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