08 Mar Carnival Pollutes More Than All of Europe’s Cars
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07 Mar Cruise Impact on Marseille, France
In 2018, The Guardian ran a story about Marseille cruise ship program and the impact on the port community. Excerpts: “We’ve noticed that the cancer cases here began emerging in the years after the cruise ship boom, as the ships got bigger and more arrived,” [Jean-Pierre...
07 Jan KUOW Story on Pioneer Square Cruise Terminal
Local NPR affiliate KUOW reported that the proposed Pioneer Square cruise ship terminal could help businesses, but harm the environment. Cruise ships using heavy bunker fuel are in fact the singularly most polluting entity in Seattle. One cruise ship idling in port puts out the equivalent...
23 Dec Seattle Air Quality and Cruise Ships
We all understand that pollution means bad air quality, adverse health effects, and contributes to the climate crisis. Here is a measure of exactly how bad cruise ships are for humans and the environment: A big city's air quality is typically 3,000 to 5,000 part per cubic...
29 Oct Primer on Bunker Fuel and Scrubbers
It's critical to understand what "bunker fuel" and "scrubbers" are. This blog post describes what bunker fuel is, and why it's the prevalent fuel used by cruise ships. Cruise ship industry cheat the internationally agreed upon emission standards by using "scrubber" technology. Scrubber technology essentially takes the...
26 Oct “One of the Planet’s Biggest Polluters”
"Fifteen of the world's largest ships creates more pollution than all the cars in the world." "The exhaust emissions of the ship, if it's running its engines in port, will affect local people's health."...
26 Oct How Bad is the Air, Exactly?
Scientific research concludes that it's bad deadly. One thousand particles per cubic centimeter is the upper acceptable limit for healthy air quality. When cruise ships are berthed in port cities, the German environmental group Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) has recorded air pollution up to...
25 Oct A Cruise Ship’s Emissions Equals that of One Million Cars
A mid-sized cruise ship can use as much as 150 tons of fuel each day, which emits as much particulate as one million cars, research shows. The United Nations International Maritime Organization had set emissions standards for ships in international waters. Over the course of several...