Cruise Ship Report Card

Millions of Americans take cruise vacations every year.

Cruise ship report card. 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. The Report Card documents the environmental footprint of the cruise industry grading 17 cruise lines and their 171 ships. The 2010 Cruise Ship Report Card lets vacationers decide which cruise to take based on a cruise ship or cruise lines environmental and human health impacts.

Friends of the Earth has turned all of this research into the Cruise Ship Report Card for 2013 to give cruise passengers a choice when it comes. Friends of the Earth released the 2019 edition of their Cruise Ship Report Card documenting the environmental footprint of the cruise industry by grading 16 cruise lines and their 185 ships. The group graded 15 cruise lines and the 148 ships.

On September 15 2020 Friends of the Earth released the 2020 edition of their Cruise Ship Report Card documenting the environmental footprint of the cruise industry by grading 18 major cruise lines and 193 ships. Friends of the Earth released their 2019 Cruise Ship Report Card today which grades 16 cruise lines on their environmental impact. The 2020 Cruise Ship Report Card takes a continued hard look at the cruise industry to see if clean cruising is possible and in most cases the answer is still a resounding NO.

For Carnival Corporation this report card wasnt good. Friends of the Earths 2013 Cruise Ship Report Card says some of the 16 cruise lines graded are becoming less polluting with five companies including Disney Norwegian and Holland improving over last year but more than 40 percent of the 162 ships assessed still rely on 30-year-old waste treatment technology leaving treated sewage with levels of fecal matter. Save up to 5600 per couple on Viking cruises when you book by 24 December 2021.

The report card last. Theres no official rating of cruise lines environmental standards but there is an unofficial one created by environmental charity Friends of the Earth FoE the Cruise Ship Report Card. When FoE started it the cruise companies and Cruise Line International Association CLIA cooperated and shared their data.

Massive oil spill in Orange County highlights need for phase out of all CA oil production October 5 2021. Cruise industry blocks updates to Puget Sound dumping agreement August 24 2021. According to the organization which is described as representing a network of environmental organizations in 74 countries the report card last released in 2010 shows a continued lack of effort on behalf of many cruise lines to pursue ways to reduce their air and water pollution impact on the places passengers take cruises to see and the communities that.