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- The Pearl Mist, a 335-foot cruise ship that was readied at a Salisbury shipyard for the last year after a protracted legal dispute between its owner and builder, will embark from Baltimore on its maiden voyage on Wednesday.
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- When Carnival Cruise Lines broke up with Baltimore last summer, saying Charm City had become too expensive a date under newly restrictive environmental regulations, it was with substantial regret.
- The return of Carnival Pride to Baltimore offers a valuable lesson in economic growth and environmental protection
- Carnival Cruise Lines announced on Thursday that it will be returning its Pride cruise liner to the port of Baltimore in March, after new technologies helped it meet federal environmental regulations that threatened to drive up costs.
- Despite assurances from labor and management officials at the port of Baltimore that their ongoing contract dispute will not result in a strike or lockout, business at the city's public terminals is slowing.
- Members of a local longshoremen union "resoundingly rejected" what has been described as a "best and final" contract offer from employers at the port of Baltimore on Monday night, according to the union president.
- Cruise lines operating out of the port of Baltimore have not been affected by the longshoremen strike that has shuttered operations at the port's public marine terminals, according to port and cruise line officials.
- Federal regulators have reached a tentative deal with Carnival Corp. on a plan to reduce air pollution from nearly a third of its cruise ships, but the accord comes too late to reverse at least a temporary loss of lucrative cruise business for Baltimore.
- Environmental hurdles lie ahead in the race to increase capacity at the port of Baltimore as cargo tonnage continues to rise and an expanded Panama Canal promises more business in the future.
- Twelve men and women at Baltimore's Coast Guard station make up the Aids to Navigation Team, responsible for maintaining buoys, markers and lighthouses: changing light bulbs, scraping and painting metal and banging out dents caused by sloppy seamanship.
- The Port of Baltimore's cruise business was made whole Friday morning, when Grandeur of the Seas began loading passengers for its first ocean voyage since a fire put the vessel in dry dock more than six weeks ago.
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- Shame on Carnival for putting profits ahead of the planet's well-being
- Blame the EPA for the loss of jobs when Carnival's Pride leaves Baltimore
- Carnival Cruise Line's departure from Baltimore in 2014 need not put an end to local cruise ship business
- Still smarting from news that half of Baltimore's lucrative cruise business is headed south next year, the state's ports chief said Friday that officials already are working on replacing the Carnival Pride.
- Baltimore appears destined to lose lucrative cruise business next year, as Florida-based Carnival Cruise Lines announced Thursday that it plans to move its 2,124-passenger ship, the Pride, to Tampa, Fla., in November 2014.
- After a four-year buffeting in the legal system, the Pearl Mist has finally found haven in Maryland.
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- Motorcycle cruising might be the ultimate surf and turf dream, a chance for bikers to ride off a passenger ship and onto sun-drenched Caribbean back roads.
- Seven years after opening the South Locust Point cruise ship berth and terminal, Maryland port officials say it is at capacity. Without expansion, the record-breaking annual statistics will level off to a profitable plateau of about 100 cruises and 241,000 passengers a year.
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- Baltimore port officials have asked the state Public Utilities Commission to set a flat rate for taxi services to and from the cruise ship terminal and three popular city locations.
- Longshoremen and the management of East Coast and Gulf ports reached a tentative agreement on a new master contract late Friday night, averting a threatened walkout next week.
- Cruise traffic at the port of Baltimore last year dipped slightly from 2011, snapping a four-year string of increases.
- Retail giants, shipping companies and federal agencies are racing the clock to make plans as the possibility of an East Coast and Gulf dock strike this weekend appears to be more likely.
- Port of Baltimore officials say they "are preparing for the worst," in the event of a dockworkers strike at one minute past midnight on Dec. 30.
- The Port of Baltimore has seen its 1 millionth passenger sail on a cruise ship.
- Some Dundalk area residents are concerned about the Maryland Port Administration's designs on Sparrows Point, fearing the state's long-range plan to convert a corner of the old steel-making complex into a supercargo shipping terminal could literally dredge up the point's toxic legacy in the Patapsco River. An "emergency" community meeting has been called for Thursday, Dec. 6 in Edgemere.
- Carnival offers sea cruise after Sandy cancels Bahamas voyage
- Transportation creeps back after Sandy slams area.
- Planners hope to keep boaters happy and safe during the Star-Spangled Sailabration in Baltimore Harbor
- Royal Caribbean International will bring the renovated Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship back to Baltimore next year.
- American Cruise Lines has announced it will return to Havre de Grace again this year, as its American Glory is scheduled to make port stops in the city during May and early June.
- The ringleader of a heroin ring that imported drugs into Baltimore aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Enchantment of the Seas has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors.
- Cruise ship disasters should not be happening in the 21st century; the U.S. Coast Guard can help ensure they don't
- Tucked behind a ruined grain elevator at a pier along an industrial stretch of Baltimore's waterfront lies a still-gleaming white vessel that was once one of the nation's proudest maritime achievements — the only nuclear cargo and passenger ship ever built in the United States.
