everybody it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce welcome my video today all
about cruise ship news happening here in August 2009 teen thanks for all of you
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you like it alright let's start with the first story it has to do with new cruise
ships on order the cruise lines have now got 124 cruise ships on order from
shipbuilding companies between now 2019 and 2020 seven the value of all the
cruise ships that are on order seventy billion dollars the average price for a
cruise ship is now 591 million it's unbelievable Carnival has a total of 21
ships on order for their nine different cruise lines so that is unbelievable
Royal Caribbean 15 different ships on order MSC 13 new ships on order and the
Norwegian 11 just those are the top four cruise lines with a massive number of
cruise ships on order there was a time about 15 20 years ago where the largest
cruise ship at sea which was known at that time as the SS Norway or once was
known as the SS France had approximately 2,000 passengers on board the ship that
was the largest cruise ship at sea from the 195 to 2005 that ship now is average
the average sized cruise ship has twenty-two hundred and twenty passengers
capacity today so here's a couple of shots of the SS Norway the largest
cruise ship but look behind it that's what new cruise ships look like now way
more decks way more efficient the second story I've got for you today is coming
out of Alaska the governor of Alaska Dunlevy
put a freeze or a veto in place against the ocean Ranger program this is where
trained professionals from the Coast Guard US Coast Guard were placed on
board cruise ships to monitor cruise ships in Alaskan waters to make sure
they're not dumping illegally and are adhering to all safety standards in
particular air quality water quality that type of thing the governor has been
trying to kill this program ever since he got elected he vetoed the funding
transfer to try to stop it the legislature in Alaska overrode the veto
that's good news and so the funding is being reinstated the bad news is the
governor through his spokesperson and his environmental officers are now
talking about reinventing this program and what they're trying to pull off here
is a way to get the monitors off the ships and have the cruise lines
self-regulate themselves why passengers should be paying three half-million
dollars a year for a program where the cruise lines are going to regulate
themselves no one knows everyone is upset we're waiting to see if the
governor is going to re veto this funding again to try to get these people
off these ships it's a battle royale in Alaska and I'll stay on top of it it's
just unbelievable a little update for you about the story coming out of
England with the piano Britannia cruise ship this is the ship last week that had
a massive brawl on board it has been nicknamed the clown fight story now is
coming out that fingers are being pointed at the cruise line for
aggressively marketing unlimited drink packages to the patrons a number of
people have complained about how intoxicated people got 15 drinks a day
are being allowed to be consumed by these folks and they are absolutely out
of control the ship staff helpless to stop the belligerents and the violence
it's not good we'll have to see if that's going to be allowed to continue
now the other story I have for you is out of Europe there are more and more
European cities ganging up to try to either limit the number of
cruise ships coming into their cities eliminate them entirely or heavily
change their their scheduling cities like Venice Barcelona Lisbon Portugal
Palma de Majorca and Dubrovnik are all in the front lines of trying to limit
the number of cruise ships coming in here's a shot of Barcelona and give an
idea Barcelona is the busiest European port
for cruise ship the funny thing is they complain about how cruise ships pollute
the environment and when they come into port they pollute the air but they you
know over the years the last 20 years have invited more and more ships to come
in with all the tourists who are spending the bucks and you kind of
wonder hey if you're bringing them in and now you're complaining about them
make up your mind the thing that they aren't doing and this is an area where
where environmentalists aren't really talking enough about is that there's a
solution to the problem with regards to overcrowding at these sports or a
solution to pollution issues at these sports as far as overcrowding goes
schedule the ships on a more efficient basis make it to a day three a day you
won't have problems like this all the time but when it comes to air pollution
here's the solution right here ship the shore power if all these ports offered
this service they'd make money on the electricity as a markup and they
wouldn't have as much pollution in the air it's just not being done last story
of the day is coming out of the Caribbean it has to do with the carnival
and Holland America getaway Half Moon key the property was acquired over 20
years ago by Carnival for about six million dollars and very handy right
nearby the USA not even a half a day sailing in your ear but Carnival has
announced that they're going to sink eighty million dollars into half moon
key they're going to add a dock facility which will eliminate the tender scenario
and people were able to walk on and walk off the ship at their leisure
the question is this doesn't cost 80 million dollars what is the money really
going to be used for and now the thinking is they may be adding a bunch
of features to the property the goods say goodbye to these tenders in a couple
of years and maybe you're gonna say hello to something like this are they
gonna turn this into a perfect day at CoCo Key like Grill Caribbean did with
water slides and wave pools we don't know we'll stay on top of the story and
see what happens but there you go five stories that we've been following
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