![]() To determine the Water Quality Compliance grade for ships operating in Alaska, we used notices of violation issued for individual cruise ships to each cruise line by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation from 2010 to 2021. Use of scrubbers is not considered since the significant majority of scrubbers in use by the cruise industry simply convert air pollution emissions into water pollution through their scrubber wastewater discharges. ![]() In addition, ships were given credit if they utilize low sulfur fuels continuously worldwide at levels lower than required by international law. To determine the Air Pollution Reduction grade for each ship in a cruise line, ships that dock at a port and plug in to available shoreside power hookups were graded. Ships with AWTS have been downgraded from As to Cs since 2020 because no companies publicly report on the performance of those advanced systems. To determine a cruise line’s Sewage Treatment grade, we compared the number of cruise ships in the cruise line that have installed advanced sewage treatment systems (AWTS) against the total number of ships in the cruise line. Grading Methodology For The 2022 Cruise Ship Report Cardįriends of the Earth’s Cruise Ship Report Card ranks 18 major cruise lines and 213 cruise ships - AIDA Cruises, Carnival Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard Cruise Line, Disney Cruise Line, Holland America Line, MSC Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Oceania Cruises, P&O Cruises, Princess Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Royal Caribbean Int’l, Seabourn Cruise Line, Silversea Cruises, Viking Cruises, and Virgin Voyages - according to four environmental criteria: Sewage Treatment, Air Pollution Reduction, Water Quality Compliance and Transparency. East Coast, FloridaĬaribbean, Europe, Mediterranean, FloridaĬaribbean, Central America, Europe, Mexico, North Africa, FloridaĬaribbean, Central America, Mediterranean, Mexico, Florida West CoastĬanada, Caribbean, Europe, Mexico, New England, U.S. West Coast, FloridaĪlaska, Australia, Hawaii, New Zealand, South Pacific, U.S. West CoastĪntarctic, Caribbean, Europe, Mediterranean, South AmericaĬaribbean, Europe, Mediterranean, Mexico, FloridaĪlaska, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Mexico, U.S. Friends of the Earth did not independently verify that the technology graded in the report card was installed on the individual cruise ships.Ĭaribbean, Central America, Europe, Mediterranean, Mexico, Florida, LouisianaĬaribbean, Europe, Gulf of Mexico, FloridaĪsia, Alaska, Southeast Asia, U.S. Friends of the Earth relied on data gathered from the internet, government sources, the cruise line industry, and other public sources in order to determine the grades assigned to the cruise lines. All cruise ships from each cruise line were included in this report card. **For the 2021 Cruise Ship Report Card, we graded 18 cruise lines and 202 cruise ships of those 18 lines operating around the world. No Discharge in Alaskan Waters or Scrubber Use « Back to the cruise report card Celebrity Cruises - Cruise Ship Fleet Together these factors give Celebrity an F for water quality compliance since scrubber use merely converts air pollution into toxic water pollution. Eleven of Celebrity’s 15 ships have scrubbers installed. In 2019, Celebrity sent three ships to Alaska, one of which was allowed to discharge into Alaskan waters and had two violations. ![]() While Celebrity operated four ships in Alaska from 2010 to 2018, it chose to discharge sewage from those ships outside of Alaskan waters, thereby avoiding Alaska’s strong water quality standards. Only three of Celebrity’s 15 ships are plug-in capable and only two dock at ports with shorepower, earning the company an F for air pollution reduction. Through its parent company RCG, Celebrity made a public commitment in 2004 to install advanced sewage treatment systems on its entire fleet of cruise ships by 2008, and now 14 of its 15 ships have installed advanced sewage treatment systems, resulting in a C for the company’s 56 percent sewage treatment score. Celebrity’s newest ship, the Celebrity Beyond, has a carrying capacity of over 5,250 passengers and crew and was launched in 2022. Each of Celebrity’s current fleet of 15 cruise ships has a carrying capacity of more than 3,000 passengers and crew, with the exception of its three expedition ships, which travel to the Galápagos Islands, and each have a capacity of fewer than 200 passengers and crew. Headquartered in Florida, Celebrity is a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group (RCG) which is incorporated in Liberia.
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