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 ...
Documents show Carnival knew of fire danger before ill-fated cruise, CNN Exclusive
(CNN) -- Bettina Rodriguez and her daughter Isabel had planned their cruise for half a year. They would sail on the Carnival Triumph cruise ship and celebrate Isabel's birthday. It was the trip of a ...
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 ...
CHS | After losing its permit, the SPA will surely compromise. Ah, no.
CHS | After losing its permit, the SPA will surely compromise. Ah, no. U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Gergel ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to comply with the "formal asses ...
Carnival will sail bigger ships from New Orleans
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY November 13, 2013 10:13 AM NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Some larger cruise ships will call New Orleans their home as the role of the cruise business continues to increase at the Port of N ...
November 15 Letter to the Editor
Well said Pat! We couldn't agree more! Cruise insights I recently had the good fortune to visit two historic port cities: Athens, Greece, and Istanbul, Turkey. The experience showed me that it is qui ...
Cruise terminal opponents want SC permit tossed
as taken from The Post and Courier by Bruce Smith Now that a judge has tossed out a federal permit for South Carolina’s proposed $35 million cruise terminal, opponents of the project say a state perm ...
Congratulations to Our Friends in Italy!
Italy to divert cruise ships from historic Venice A special commission has approved a plan to divert cruise ships away from Venice's historic centre By Reuters 9:09PM GMT 05 Nov 2013 ...
Letter from a concerned citizen….
Dear People, You do well to be concerned about cruise ships in Charleston. I lived in St. Thomas for 27 years and watched the development and growth of the Cruise Ship Industry down there up to and ...
SC Group teams up with groups in Florida and Italy — The Miami Herald
By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A citizens group from Charleston has formed a coalition with similar groups in Venice, Italy, and Key West, Fla., to work for regulations protecti ...