Portland Cruise Control

07/15/2026

Cruise Ships Exposing Iceland’s Residents to Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution

Air quality measurements recorded during visits of cruise ships – such as the Viking Mars and Sky Princess – to the port of Sundahöfn, in Reykjavík, Iceland, show high air pollution levels with an average of 35-40 times higher than safe low particle levels recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) – 1,000 particles/cm3. via Clean Arctic Alliance

https://cleanarctic.org/2026/07/15/cruise-ships-exposing-icelands-residents-to-dangerous-levels-of-air-pollution/

07/14/2026

Protest with music!

Fair Sailing has produced a music video highlighting challenges of being Canada’s busiest cruise ship port-of-call. With over 330 ships arriving in 2026, local residents – and the environment – are on the front line of impacts from cruise ship garbage, and cruise ship air and ocean pollution.

“The Modern Cruise Ship Activist Song” explores the cruise industry from a local perspective. It is set to Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘Major-General's Song' and is a clever and captivating reminder of the multitude of negative impacts forced on port communities.

The Modern Cruise Ship Activist SongWe are the very model of some...

07/13/2026

Barcelona’s New Message: ‘Not One Tourist More’

"The mayor has also just announced a proposal to eliminate cruise ships that only stop for the day. We want zero day-tripping cruise passengers, and to achieve that we’re going to ask the regional authorities to raise the tax on them to the maximum allowed. We want it be so high that it doesn’t make sense to come into the city.

Repairing the residential fabric of the historic center requires a lot of different initiatives working together, but all of them are founded on a basic, inalienable principle, which is the right for residents to stay in the city. A city cannot function without its citizens."

As the commissioner for sustainable tourism, José Antonio Donaire’s job is to diminish the impact of the nearly 16 million annual visitors to the Catalan capital. Here’s what he’s planning.

07/12/2026

How do you advocate for whales?
Hold a funeral.

Locals residents in Seward and the Center for Biological Diversity are pushing back after a cruise ship struck and killed an endangered whale.

Cruise Control Seward AK
Jamie Lyons

Locals and an environmental group are raising alarms after a cruise ship struck and killed an endangered whale.

07/11/2026

Cruise ship fumes spread viruses, study suggests

Air pollution from cruise ships may be helping to spread viruses such as Covid-19 and the common cold, a study has found.

"The ultrafine particles contained in these ships' emissions... are essentially unregulated and generally not monitored.
Portland Public Health Division

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75y04x537ko via BBC

Researchers identify cruise ships as the source of pollution particles which may harm human health.

07/11/2026

Protest for the whales.
Cruise Control Seward AK

07/10/2026

We don’t talk often enough about the visual pollution caused by cruise ships. How they tower over the neighborhood rooftops of Munjoy Hill, massive floating cities spewing pollutants.

In Odveig Klyve’s “View,” a quiet Norwegian coastal city is invaded by some oppressively large visitors. It is a brilliant example of scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK2F1SeBQXY

In Odveig Klyve’s “View,” a quiet Norwegian coastal city is invaded...

07/09/2026

Local residents & environmental groups have halted the construction of a new cruise terminal in Italy.

Environmental organizations have raised concerns about dredging, new breakwaters, impacts on protected bird habitats, and the area’s traditional wooden fishing huts built on stilts that have long been part of the local landscape.

https://www.cruisehive.com/italian-court-halts-royal-caribbean-cruise-port-near-rome/212670

An Italian court has overturned environmental approval for a proposed €600 million cruise port near Rome forcing developers to restart the approval process.

07/08/2026

Who are the companies lobbying against keeping the vessel speed limits that protect the lives of North Atlantic right whales?
We have a right to know & Center for Biological Diversity is suing to find out!

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-seeks-info-on-trumps-dumping-of-speed-limit-protections-for-north-atlantic-right-whales-2026-07-07/

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today seeking records on a decision that would revoke vessel speed restrictions on the Atlantic coast that protect whales, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, from deadly ship strikes.

07/07/2026

Carnival cruises & their exploitation of immigrant labor continues…. but now maritime union organizers are fighting back.

12 hour days, 7 days a week, for 9 months straight with no days off, being paid as little as $2.50 an hour. This is the way foreign flagged cruise ships profit from labor. When you take a cruise, when you host a cruise ship in your port, you are enabling this nightmare.

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