He also called on the International Maritime Organization to investigate whether cruise lines are following existing guidelines, and whether existing standards are being enforced by countries where cruise ships that serve U.S. passengers are based.
Still, much of the pleasure of the cruise is being aboard the gulet, lounging on deck and breathing in the sea air.
Now Carnival, despite being stronger than most cruise operators, will suffer as the heavy burden of overhead is spread among fewer vacationers, he says.
Whatever it is, The World, a 196-metre (644-foot) ship launched on February 28th and now being fitted out, is being watched closely by cruise-industry executives.
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But if a call at Port Stanley is going to lead to the cruise ships being banned from Argentinean ports, and perhaps eventually ports in other South American countries, how long will they keep Port Stanley on their itineraries?
Indeed, whatever happens to Mr Knowles's bill, the cruise ships are now being brought to heel.
And most important, it would have packed an explosive amount of long-range firepower, being able to launch some 500 cruise missiles.
With immediate effect, taxes on visiting cruise ship liners are being reduced.
Even as the cruise ship was still being towed to harbor, Carnival announced plans to accommodate passengers in local hotels and ferry them home on charter flights as soon as possible.
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Passengers are being refunded their fares and offered a free cruise in the future, the company said.
And now questions are being raised about whether even ground-hugging cruise missiles will be able to penetrate contested airspace in the future.
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Mr. ALFRED TABAN (Publisher, Khartoum Monitor): They build a huge building like that and bring boats that day--so a big boat or cruise liner or whatever it is, being brought for the heads of state.
After being treated in hospital, they decided to continue with their cruise and have now rejoined the ship.
Cruise ship passengers with any company are accustomed to schedules being changed at short notice, whether it is as a result of storms, fogs, strikes or political events.
The dancers are the godmothers for Norwegian Cruise Line's new ship, Norwegian Breakaway, which is being christened Wednesday afternoon at a pier on the Hudson River.
There is sailing, jet-boating, sandboarding and helicopter flights, or more gentle outdoor pleasures like chasing the reflections on a mirror-calm Gordon River cruise, riding through the rainforests on a restored heritage railway or being driven to the heart of it all in a comfortable 4x4.
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But this issue of kind of being confined to these two, admittedly, very grand facilities, but if a cruise missile or even something more simple than that were directed in the right place, at the Kennedy Space Center or at Vandenberg, we're really in trouble.
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One day, the company's engineers hope, drive-by-wire could link to the fancy cruise-control, lane-maintenance and vehicle-separation systems that are already being used in some Mercedes models.
And this being the only ship on the route, none of the ports were swamped with thousands of other cruise passengers arriving for the day, which is often the case in the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Alaska.
The barges are moored across the river from the Carnival Triumph, the cruise ship that lost power in February and drifted in the Gulf of Mexico for days before being towed to Mobile for repairs.
Laura Murphy, a fellow river cruise passenger, told CNN that the ship's captain anchored the boat in Luxor after being warned against docking at any of the stops along the Nile because those areas may be unsafe for tourists.
Occasionally cruise ships will be refurbished here, but aside from ferries, there are very few large ships being built.
After being towed to port, those aboard the Carnival Triumph will be flown home at no cost to them, the cruise line said.
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