environment

Miami - Jun 3, 2008 -- NCL announced today that Norwegian Pearl recently received the Port of San Francisco's annual Cruise Ship Environmental Award.

SEATTLE, May 20, 2008 -- Majestic America Line today signed the Wilderness Best Management Practices Program for Tracy Arm and Ford Terror Wilderness. This commits the line to preserving quiet, maintaining clean air, protecting wildlife.

SEATTLE, April 29, 2008 -- HAL and the Port of Seattle have announced Ship to Shelter, an innovative community-giving program that will donate goods from cruise ships to people in need. This will provide valuable goods including weekly donations of individual-sized toiletries, as well as periodic supplies of towels, linens, dishes, cookware, silverware, televisions and mattresses.

RCL's Q1 2008 earnings statement today noted that average fuel prices increased from $388 per metric ton in 2007 to $592 per metric ton now.

"We genuinely believe cruise companies are driven to protect the seas and the earth." That's a direct quote from Jamie Sweeting, from Conservation International, on a CLIA PR video shown at the Seatrade 2008 State of the Industry.

I wrote it down exactly because I thought it was so ridiculous.

MIAMI, April 24, 2008 -- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today former Conservation International activist Jamie Sweeting as VP of Environmental Stewardship.

With the recent fuel supplement increases at RCL and CCL brands, and ever-rising green consciousness, cruise ship fuel consumption has been on my mind.

No, I'm not talking about HAL's SoE program. I'm talking about the thing people stick at the end of e-mails and forum posts as part of their signature. You know the ones. For correspondence from us, it's:

VICTORIA, June 22, 2007 - The upcoming Genesis Class ships will feature advanced wastewater treatment in support of the Royal Caribbean's "Save the Waves(R)" initiatives. Hydroxyl's CleanSea(R) wastewater purification systems will enable the vessels to reliably treat all biodegradable water streams prior to safe discharge to the ocean.