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Freed Cruise Ship Shows Risks of More Traffic in Remote Arctic

The grounding of a luxury cruise ship off the coast of Greenland on Monday highlighted the irony of touring the fast-warming Arctic on vessels powered by fossil fuels, the main culprit in climate change. But the incident also underscores the …

Cruise Line Let Passenger’s Body Decompose, Lawsuit Says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband’s body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered …

Cruise Ship Changes Course After U.S. Judge Orders Seizure

MIAMI (AP)–A cruise ship that was supposed to dock in Miami has instead sailed to the Bahamas, after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over $4 million in unpaid fuel. Cruise …

Costa Concordia is Gone, but Horror Lingers 10 Years Later

GIGLIO, Italy (AP)–Italy honored the 32 victims of the Costa Concordia shipwreck on the 10th anniversary of the disaster with a commemoration Thursday on the Tuscan island of Giglio, which recalled the horror of the night the cruise ship struck …

Coronavirus Motel Ignites Clash at Epicenter of Seattle Outbreak

What started as a bold plan to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the Seattle area is quickly devolving into a Nimby battle. Officials in King County, Washington, the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., said this week …

Officials Probe Illnesses on Cruise Ship

U.S. health officials will board a cruise ship docked in the U.S. Virgin Islands to investigate an illness outbreak that has sickened at least 300 people. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 281 out of 3,050 passengers …

Cruise Ship Lifeboat Accident Kills 5 in Spain

A lifeboat being used on a safety drill aboard a cruise ship in Spain’s Canary Islands fell about 65 feet (20 meters) into a port on Sunday when a cable snapped, trapping crew members beneath it and killing five of …

Reinsurer Sees Major Loss From Concordia Capsize

German reinsurer Hannover Re AG says it expects the fatal capsizing of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to cost it tens of millions of euros (dollars). Hannover Re said Monday it expects losses of some (euro) 30 million ($39 million) …