Industry and Pacific Northwest partners want cruising to go zero-emission by 2050

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The cruise industry and several Pacific Northwest ports, including the City and Borough of Juneau, are working together to try to eventually eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from cruising in the region.

, the port authorities in Seattle and Vancouver, international shipping organizations and the operators of almost every big cruise ship in the region.

Jan Swartz is the president of the Holland America Group, a subsidiary of Carnival. She said her company already has its own R&D team working on new technologies to make cruise ships more efficient and to use alternatives to fossil fuels. The structure and scope of how the partners will work on this green corridor still has to be worked out. An official with the Port of Seattle Executive Director Stephen Metruck said he expects to get all of the partners together in the next 30 days to begin work on a charter for the group.

 

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