Air quality on cruise ship deck ‘worse than world’s most polluted cities’, investigation finds. Levels of pollution on some cruise ships’ decks are worse than in the world’s most polluted cities, an investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches has found. The undercover investigation on Britain’s biggest crew operator P&O Cruises aimed to find out how clean the air holidaymakers breathe
Too-narrow trench could cost $1 million at Seattle port
SEATTLE – A tiny mistake – about half the thickness of a dime – could end up costing about $1 million at the Port of Seattle. When the port built a new cargo terminal for stevedoring company SSA Marine, a trench was dug to hold the electrical cable for the giant cranes that lift containers
How the Port “got it done” on a one-bid contract
By Bob Young The Port of Seattle received just one bid last year for a contract to build a new cruise-ship terminal near the Magnolia Bridge. It came in 30 percent above the Port’s $30 million estimate. Under Port policy, elected commissioners are supposed to be alerted when the best bid exceeds the Port engineer’s
Tacoma port set to eclipse Seattle’s
Neighbor has room to grow By KRISTEN MILLARES BOLT, P-I REPORTERJune 8, 2006 The Port of Seattle’s annual container volume traffic is slowing to between 5 and 8 percent growth this year, according to port staff, after two explosive years during which container volumes jumped by 40 percent. In a report released Thursday, the Port