everybody it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce welcome to my channel today
we have a video a recap video of what's been going on in the Cruz world for the
month of March 2019 and a lot has been going on from Dublin Seattle from
Norwegian from Viking from carnival and even from Princess Cruise Line's
lots happening lots to cover let's get started
the first story is Dublin the port of Dublin shocked the tourism committees by
announcing that they were going to cut cruise port visits by 50% by 2021 this
sent shockwaves through all of the hotel yers and restaurants and all kinds of
tour operators in Dublin but the story actually is a more detailed than that
the port is going under massive renovation and improvement and they will
cut back from 160 cruise ships now to about 84 mm 21 22 and 23 but then after
renovations are complete back up to 150 to 200 cruise ships a year Dublin wants
to actually expand their business so it's not as bad as it seems over in
Seattle though things are booming here the City of Seattle wants to add a ton
of money to its port there's a proposed third terminal that is going to be built
here for two hundred million dollars to add to the existing booming business
that's being done now the Port of Seattle is already handling 1.2 million
passengers a year rumor has it that Hall in America is in
deep discussions to get involved in the 200 million dollar terminal because Hall
in America and Princess are the top cruise generators to Alaska out of
Seattle now over here on Norwegian on the region bliss problems here this
stack the smokestacks at the back of the ship on certain days depending on the
wind conditions smoke will rise up out of the smokestacks and all of this black
soot will land on passengers on the back deck even on the handrails like this the
crew of the Bliss I've been diligent sometimes every
morning they've been out here like a little army cleaning this up but we're
gonna have to see what Norwegian does about this soot problem at the back of
it ship now here's the story that has been dominating to lose the news for the
last we can have the biking sky cruise ship luxury cruise liner she was pulling
out of a port in Norway got a few miles off shore when her engines died on her
all four at the same time passengers are told to get their life
jackets head to the muster station and for over 24 hours they were being
evacuated off of this disintegrating ship because every time she was tossed
from one side to another to another all of her furniture all of her dishes and
glass everything would come tumbling down and it was just turning into powder
the ship was just getting beaten to a pulp helicopters took off over 470 or so
passengers over 30 hours finally the ship was able to get her engine's going
and come into port where she is now going under repair itself gonna cost
them millions to repair the ship and of course the PR nightmare has only just
begun over here on Carnival they have another
little problem Carnival announced this week record earnings beat their expected
profit numbers everything sounds wonderful and yet in one day this past
week Marat around March the 26th or so 27th the stock dropped 8% in value in
one day wiping out three and a half billion dollars of value off the market
cap value of Carnival the reason Carnival is definitely filling up at
ships not a problem but they are not getting the top dollar that they're
expecting we're talking about cruises coming up later not now but in the next
three months six months nine months apparently they're under pricing
pressure and the worry is also about brexit because Carnival operates cruise
lines in Europe and they're worried about the brexit effect having
cost overruns they're gonna be interesting to see how this plays out
here princess good news the royal princess has come in to Los Angeles to
use LA as her home port going forward the cruise line is the bringing in this
beautiful ship the largest ship ever to come into Los Angeles and user as a home
port the cruise line will be sailing to Alaska this summer and then in the fall
she'll be home porting again all through the winter into 2020 with Mexican and
Caribbean cruises so lots going on in the cruise world folks stay tuned to
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