Cruise lines change courses to save on fuel

Royal Caribbean International is the latest cruise line to announce changes to its 2009 cruise itinerary due to plans to reduce operational costs.

Royal Caribbean recently said that it would change the routes for its cruise vessel ‘Explorer of the Seas’ which was scheduled to call at Sydney and Charlottetown, Canada. “The recent itinerary change is not a surprising response to the rise in fuel costs,” Jackie Chow of Corner Brook told the Halifax Herald. “In 2006, there was a similar itinerary change by Carnival where they substituted a port that allowed them to reduce fuel. We do occasionally see changes to arrival and departure times to allow ships to slow down to save fuel.”
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