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Cruise industry says clean fuel rules will increase passenger costs and impact itineraries

Oliver Smith

Photo Credit: The Marco Polo cruise ship, formerly part of Star Cruises, docks in Barbados.  Flickr.com / Tom Mascardo

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Any major shift in an industry is expected to encounter resistance and cruise companies are bemoaning the regulations that will increase costs and limit the destinations where ships can refuel.

Environmental regulations aimed at reducing sulphur emissions could force cruise lines to avoid certain destinations, according to a leading travel agent. The rules will require ships travelling through established “Emission Control Areas” - which currently includes the Baltic, the North Sea and parts of the North American coastline - to burn fuel that emits no more than 0.1 per cent sulphur by 2015. Nigel Lindgard, director of Reader Offers and a former marketing director at Fred

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