Port Considers Naming Rights for Cruise Ship Terminal (San Diego Business Journal)
The estimated cost for a long-planned cruise ship terminal at the Broadway Pier jumped to $28 million, causing the Port of San Diego to include naming rights as a way to finance the project, the port district said Sept. 3.
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Lucas not concerned by Brisbane cruise ship bypass (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Queensland's Deputy Premier Paul Lucas says he is not concerned that the world's largest cruise liner will continue to bypass Brisbane until at least 2011.
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Cruise ship passenger dies while at sea (FOX10 Gulf Coast)
Investigators are looking into the death of a passenger the Fantasy cruise ship. FOX10 News is told a 49-year-old Louisiana man died Tuesday while the ship was at sea. Investigators do not suspect foul play. Authorities say other passengers saw the man suffer some kind of medical condition. An autopsy will determine the exact cause of death.
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Victims lead push for crackdown on cruise ship industry (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Laurie Dishman, a 37-year-old food-services manager from Sacramento, Calif., said it was time to face her fears head-on, so she took a therapeutic trip to the Port of Miami last weekend. It was the first time she'd gone near big ships since 2006, when she was raped on a cruise by one of the ship's janitors. Back then, she was appalled when the crew responded by telling her that she needed to ...
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Hoisting the sails and smelling the sea: cruise aboard tall ship 'great experience' (The Guardian)
GEORGETOWN — The white sails glimmering in the moonlight and the churn of the whitecaps as they sailed past the Iles de la Madeleine will always stir the heart of Ray de St.
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Disney cruise ship to get Fantasia-themed splash pool, LCD TVs (Orlando Sentinel)

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Gustav sends passengers on ‘cruise to nowhere’ (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON — When the cruise ship Ecstasy departs the island today, it will take passengers on a three-day trip to “nowhere,” thanks to Hurricane Gustav.
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Eyes, stomachs filled on cruise (Basehor Sentinel)
There’s no excuse for going hungry on a cruise ship. The cruise lines have figured out that the way to the traveler’s heart is through his stomach.
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Cruise Logger: Sailing past Tropical Storm Hanna 'pretty cool' (USA Today)
A Cruise Log reader on Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas this week reports 'lots of wind, rain and some high seas' as the ship sails near Tropical Storm Hanna.
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After rape, Sacramento woman lobbies for cruise-ship safety law (The Sacramento Bee)
WASHINGTON – Two weeks ago, Laurie Dishman, a 37-year-old food services manager from Sacramento, took a trip to the Port of Miami. She wanted to face her fear. FLORENCE LOW flow@sacbee.com Laurie Dishman of Sacramento said that when she was raped on a cruise ship by a ship employee, crew members handed her a trash bag and told her to collect her own evidence. Now she's fighting back.
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