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EDITORIAL: The Cruise Lines ‘Tax Loophole’ and What One Senator Plans on Doing With It.

Senator Jay Rockerfeller has always been a vocal opponent of the cruise industry. Even calling two special congressional hearings about...

EDITORIAL: The Bids For Maine–Nova Scotia Ferry Service

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Back in January I reported that the Nova Scotian government was taking bids to restart-up the Maine-Nova Scotia ferry. The...

Fincantieri New Ship Proposal: Project Mille

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Background Italy’s Fincantieri revealed a new concept ship at Cruise Shipping Miami 2013. Not too much information was made available. However since then, some information was able to leak out. Dubbed Project Mille, she encapsulates the wave of the future...

EDITORIAL: Port Of Galveston Upgrades

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From Mikey’s Cruise Blog: the Port of Galveston is considering spending $12 million dollars to put towards terminal renovations and...

GUEST EDITORIAL: Physical Safety or Mental Safety? @myCruiseView

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Derek, of the newly formed myCruiseView, has been kind enough to give us his take on the events of the...

A Recap and Analysis of the grounding and Listing of the Costa Concordia (Concordia Update V)

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The above photo illustrates the final course of the Costa Concordia. It was obtained from Costa’s official vessel positioning. I then superimposed it with the last AIS data to leave the ship via MarineTraffic. Her initial course, starting from the...