Santa Barbara taking a cue from Charleston?
Check out this interesting article where Santa Barbara looks to Charleston for advice on the increase in cruise ships calling upon their port: Cruise Control? Thirty ships slated to call on Santa Bar ...
Letters to the Editor, Thursday, Jan. 30
Stop the ships Since the Preservation Society of Charleston and its members have no standing before the court to try to regulate cruise ships, that leaves it up to those who certainly do have a stand ...
Maintain pressure on cruise pollution
Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:01 a.m. Four years ago this month, hundreds of people gathered for a forum to address Charleston's "delicate balance" between livability and tourism. Cruise ships ...
Our perseverance is apparently being heard at State levels
Proposed legislation to bring shore-side power to Charleston cruise terminal by Tyrone Richardson, Post and Courier Cruise ships docked in Charleston soon could be plugging into a shoreside power out ...
Ports of contention
Ports of contention By Tom Stieghorst Ports of contentionA week before the Costa Concordia ran aground in January 2012, a group of activists in Venice formed a committee to push back against the growi ...
Cruise terminal needs public input
Now there's a thought... Let the public have input on what is done with their dollars on their turf... Should be interesting to see what transpires! Click here to read the article from Post and Couri ...
4 years on, Charleston cruise debate lingers
By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press January 2, 2014 CHARLESTON, S.C. — It's been almost four years since the South Carolina Ports Authority announced plans to build a new $35 million passenger cruise te ...
Could Carnival have avoided the Triumph cruise nightmare?
Please click on the header below to see the video footage from this Anderson Cooper exclusive! Could Carnival have avoided the Triumph cruise nightmare? It was the vacation from hell for thousands o ...
Air samples at cruise ship docks worldwide find dangerous levels of deadly soot
Tests in Manhattan, Venice, Germany show urgent need for lines to upgrade pollution controls NEW YORK – Air samples taken near idling cruise ships in New York and three European ports contained dange ...
Letters to the Editor for Wednesday, Dec. 11
Clearing the air Commendations are due the State Ports Authority and its CEO, Jim Newsome, for supporting removal of unhealthy air pollution from trucks at the SPA docks by promoting more eco-friendl ...