green cruising

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

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.

SEATTLE, Oct. 18, 2007 - Holland America Line, along with Krystallon, a subsidiary of BP, recently won the 2007 Seatrade Insider Environmental Initiative Award for their innovative emission reduction technology installed on the ms Zaandam.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11, 2007 -- For the first time, the readers of Britain's Conde Nast Traveller voted Crystal Cruises their "Favourite Cruise Line: Large Ship." Crystal Cruises also received the highest scores for "environmental friendliness" and "standard/comfort of cabins."

MIAMI, Sept. 4, 2007 -- Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises announced today the winners of the company's own internal environmental awards.