However, a new report by Reuters questions the validity of any cruise safety statistics because there is no public database on cruise line accidents.

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Citizens may hesitate to engage in political discussion on line for fear of being tagged and put into a marketing database.

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Shippers enter their product and destination data on the Open Harbor interface, which then cross-references the information against an 8-million-line Oracle database, updated daily, of export rules, documents and taxes for 64 countries.

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