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I too find cruise ship pollution while in port annoying, especially so once you realize they're burning oil to run generators ... while being just meters away f
by avar 3y ago
I too find cruise ship pollution while in port annoying, especially so once you realize they're burning oil to run generators ... while being just meters away from a perfectly working power grid.
It seems to me that a perfectly reasonable solution that would satisfy all parties would be to mandate that EU ports have appropriate grid connections, and that cruise ships must make use of them.
- skeeter2020 3y agoOr impose lots of stricter rules on all ships in ports. Cruise ships will follow them to get the customers; container ships to get at the consumer markets.
- avar 3y agoThe difference is that other ship types don't have an incentive to run their engines once they're docked. Cruise ships as floating hotels have high power requirements even when they're not underway. They're also likely to be docked at "the marina", or another downtown or residential area. Container ships will typically dock at transport harbors, which are in industrial areas outside of population centers.