2017 Cruise Ship Report Card

Report Card lets vacationers decide which cruise to take based on a cruise ship or cruise lines environmental and human health impacts.

2017 cruise ship report card. We evaluated 18 major cruise lines on 4 environmental factors. You can choose a greener cruise. Friends of the Earth issued its first-ever Cruise Ship Environmental Report Card an assessment of the environmental and human health footprint of cruise lines and ships operating in the United States.

With new ships that can carry more than 8000 passengers and crew these floating cities pollute the air we breathe and the wat er we use and enjoy. The ship was scheduled to depart the same day. You never know how the information is going to be used or who it will be shared with but a quick look through their website and 990s shows one of their objectives is to place very strict federal regulations on cruise ships that would result in a costly.

Millions of Americans take cruise vacations every year. Sewage treatment air pollution reduction water. Cruise ship staff send this report any time the ship is in the United States or within 15 days of arriving at a US.

Interim Report MO-2017-203 Page 1 1. The report card last released in 2014 shows an ongoing lack of initiative by cruise companies to install technologies that reduce their air and water pollution impact on travel. The seven Carnival Corporation companies on our report card Princess Cruises Holland America Line Cunard Cruise Line Seabourn Cruise Line Costa Cruises PO Cruises and Carnival Cruise.

At about 0730 on 9 February 2017 the passenger cruise ship Emerald Princess berthed in Port Chalmers New Zealand. Resources for industry profit. According to the Friends of the Earth the Cruise Ship Report Card ranks the cruise lines and each ship in the respective fleet according to four criteria.

Environmental Protection Agency EPA says an average cruise ship with 3000 passengers and crew produces about 21000 gallons of sewage a dayenough to fill. I can see how cruise lines may be hesitant to respond to a questionnaire put forward by a well funded special interest group like this. Princess Cruises is a premier cruise line that began with a single ship crusing to Mexico.