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Carnival Corporation has launched an ‘Advanced Air Quality Systems’ website to highlight the benefit of using scrubbers to meet the IMO’s 0.5% 2020 sulphur limit and support sustainable operations in ports and…

Costa Cruises has signed the ‘Genoa Blue Agreement’ requiring ships to use marine gasoil with a sulphur content not exceeding 0.10% by mass before entering the ports of Savona and Genoa.

Ege Port Kusadasi has become the first cruise port in the world to be granted the Ecoports Port Environmental Review System (PERS) certificate for contributing towards the sustainability of the port sector.

The Port of Dover has presented Princess Cruises’ ‘Pacific Princess’ with its Safety Environment Awareness ‘SEA’ Award.

The Port of London Authority (PLA) has funded an GB£80,000 network of air pollution monitors that will record the effect of emissions locally from cruise ships docking in Greenwich, London this summer.

Sardinia is set to become an LNG hub. Massimo Deiana, chairman of the Sardinian Port AuthoritySystem, explains what this means for Cagliari and the island’s other cruise ports

A new single berth cruise terminal with access to shore power at the Port of Seattle is moving closer towards becoming operational as a partner to develop and operate it is sought.

Solent Stevedores has invested GB£1m into 33 electric counter balance forklift trucks from STILL Materials Handling to help reduce emissions at the Port of Southampton ahead of the 2019 cruise season.

Air quality monitors used at the Port of Kiel to measure emissions of nitrous oxides (NOx) and fine particulate matter (PM) around its cruise ship terminal have shown that cruise ships are…

Cavotec shore power technologies are playing a key role in delivering substantial sustainability savings to ports in China.

ABP Southampton has installed more than 2,000 roof-mounted solar panels on the Port of Southampton’s largest cruise terminal to make it carbon neutral as part of a programme to invest more than…

A legal attempt to block the building of a cruise ship terminal in Charleston on environmental grounds has been rejected.

Japan’s Peace Boat cruise organisation says it will construct its unique Ecoship green concept cruise vessel with the Finnish shipbuilder Arctech.

The international engineering consultancy Ramboll has been appointed to lead a highly skilled technical team developing a new efficient cruise terminal facility on the UK’s River Mersey.

The green light given to a new terminal development in Venice has drawn criticism from the cruise industry over what has been called a totally ‘unworkable solution’.

Carnival Corporation plc is to install and certify Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) on 60 ships across its global fleet, meaning that it’s on course to equip more than 85 of its vessels…

Princess Cruise Lines has pleaded guilty to seven federal charges in an illegal ocean pollution case involving dumping oily waste at sea.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in New York has installed shore power, only the second US Atlantic coast cruise terminal after Halifax in Nova Scotia, to do so.

Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) Europe has a new initiative for the cruise industry in the Baltic region which aims to foster solutions for cruise tourism by bringing stakeholders closer together to…

Silverstream Technologies, specialist in air lubrication technology, said that the cruise sector is driving clean technology uptake driven by the 0.5% sulphur emissions regulation coming into force in 2020.

German energy expert, Stemmann-Technik, has completed onshore power supply projects for cruise ship terminals at the ports of Hamburg and Shanghai and supplied a charging system for a new electric ferry.

The design for the ‘world’s greenest’ cruise ship was announced at COP21 in Paris and its maiden voyage is scheduled for 2020.