Carnival Cruise is Criminal: Convention Reception!

Help us “welcome” guests to the 2019 Cruise Connections Conference & make sure they know we won’t tolerate Carnival Cruise Line’s toxic business model or environmental crimes at our Port!

We have banners, noisemakers, flyers and more! Please join us on the sidewalk while cruise line executives, tourism partners, vendors and community leaders are arriving.

We oppose doing business with egregious polluters like Carnival Corporation…

Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise ship company in the world, has a fleet of over 100 cruise ships. Carnival’s nine brands control almost fifty percent of the market. Carnival ships collectively burn over 2 million tons of heavy fuel oil (HFO) every year. Heavy fuel oil is a waste product of the oil industry. HFO is the thick, bottom-of-the-barrel sludge left over after crude oil is refined. It is one of the dirtiest fuels in the world, and is considered toxic waste on land. If we consider HFO a toxic waste on land, why do we tolerate Carnival burning HFO at sea?

Carnival cruise ships are polluting our air, our water, our climate, and our communities. Friends of the Earth awarded Carnival Corporation brands an overall grade of F, based on the company’s performance on sewage treatment, reducing air pollution, water quality compliance, transparency, and criminal violations.

Carnival Corp. is currently on criminal probation in the US for illegally dumping oily waste into the ocean and trying to cover it up. Worse still, they recently plead guilty to violating that probation, by yet again dumping wastewater and plastic into the ocean.

The Port of Seattle should avoid doing business with criminal entities and bad actors like Carnival. As a critical first step to rehabilitating their dismal reputation, we call on Carnival to switch from heavy fuel oil to the relatively cleaner-burning marine grade oil (MGO).