"GREENOCK parkrun welcomed 130 runners to the Esplanade on Saturday for the weekly five-kilometre time trial.
Nineteen of them were new to Greenock parkrun including seven who had never taken part in any parkrun event before.
Among the first-timers were Welsh visitors from the Royal Princess cruise ship which was docked at the nearby Greenock Ocean Terminal."

https://www.inverclydenow.com/other-sports/twenty-eight-runners-go-faster-at-greenock-parkrun

"The US Coast Guard conducted an emergency medical evacuation on August 13, airlifting a 76-year-old woman suffering kidney failure off of a cruise ship near Coos Bay, Oregon.
The woman was transported via a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from the Grand Princess cruise ship to Oregon’s Bay Area Hospital." Credit: U.S. Coast Guard via Storyful

“This revolutionary platform for next-generation, LNG-powered cruise ships will introduce innovative design and leisure experiences driven by the future vacation and lifestyle trends of our guests – further evolving the already best-in-class Princess Cruises experience we deliver today. We look forward to collaborating with Fincantieri to bring our vision for this next-generation premium cruise ship into service” said Princess Cruises president Jan Swartz.

Fincantieri chief executive Giuseppe Bono stated “We are proud to further extend our long-established partnership with Princess Cruises, a brand we are indeed tied to since our comeback to the cruise ship industry in 1990. After so many years, we are getting ready to enter, together, into a new era of our industry, increasingly aimed at reducing environmental impact. We proudly do this with an all-time record project, both in terms of size and technological level”.

https://www.passengership.info/news/view,princess-cruises-strikes-moa-for-two-lngfuelled-cruise-ships_53627.htm

A federal judge has scheduled a new trial date for a Utah man accused of murdering his wife aboard a cruise ship in Alaska.
Kenneth Manzanares will go on trial for four weeks beginning May 20, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Burgess wrote in an order obtained Sunday by FOX 13."

https://fox13now.com/2018/08/12/judge-sets-new-trial-date-in-cruise-ship-murder/

"As previously announced, Sky Princess will be a sister to Princess's Royal Princess, Regal Princess and Majestic Princess. The three ships have debuted over the past five years. 
 
Currently under construction at a shipyard in Italy, Sky Princess will begin passenger operations on Oct. 20, 2019 with a seven-night Mediterranean cruise from Piraeus, Greece (the port for Athens) to Barcelona. The trip will feature calls at Kotor, Montenegro; Corfu, Greece; and Messina and Naples in Italy.
The voyage will be followed by three more seven-night sailings in the Mediterranean between Barcelona and Civitavecchia, Italy (the port for Rome).
The newly announced Caribbean sailings will kick off with a three-day, round-trip cruise out of Fort Lauderdale departing on Dec. 4, 2019. The vessel then sails on alternating seven-day Eastern and Western Caribbean itineraries round-trip from Fort Lauderdale from Dec. 7, 2019 through April 4, 2020."


https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2018/05/17/princess-cruises-ship-sky-princess-cruise-caribbean/618875002/

"Princess Cruises’ newly enhanced beverage menus will feature globally inspired signature cocktail offerings created by master mixologist Rob Floyd. In addition to the new cocktails, the cruise line has added 20 new high-end and exotic spirits, 39 new wines by the glass, and 17 new international and craft beers to the new menu."


https://cruisefever.net/princess-cruises-announces-one-of-their-biggest-beverage-changes-ever/

"Haines wasn’t scheduled to have any cruise ships in port tomorrow. But, with high winds forecasted in Northern Lynn Canal, around 3,000 extra visitors are headed for the Chilkat Valley.
The National Weather Service is forecasting a southerly gale at 35 knots, with gusts to 50 knots and 7 ft. seas."


"The Haines Visitor Center is looking for volunteers to help accommodate the extra visitors."


 https://khns.org/high-winds-reroute-cruise-ship-from-skagway-to-haines

 

"Several residents brought to my attention a claim made by Brian Salerno, CLIA’s Senior Vice President of Maritime Affairs, that the sludge from cruise ship smokestack scrubbers (designed to reduce emissions, primarily sulfur),  is stored onboard and offloaded, allegedly, only at facilitates ashore. He promised that the cruise industry would not dump the sludge overboard,  where the particulate matter and sulfur sludge obviously would pollute the water and foul the local beaches and port facilities.

The CLIA representative said that the cruise ship scrubber processing equipment “ultimately collects sludge” which “has to be disposed of properly ashore.”

https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2018/08/articles/pollution/clia-lies-rockland/