Amsterdam banning cruise ships

[highplanesdrifters]

9 hours ago, cruiseaholic78 said:

As you may know, their engines still need to run, at a lower level, to generate the electricity needed to power all systems on board. For years, there has been talk in Amsterdam about moving the cruise terminal to a place outside the city.

So in town the pollution generated by the ship will be replaced by pollution from the busses to take people to the town.  But the pollution from the ship will still be generated, just in a different town. So now, twice the pollution. Brilliant!

[SLSD]

54 minutes ago, highplanesdrifters said:

So in town the pollution generated by the ship will be replaced by pollution from the busses to take people to the town.  But the pollution from the ship will still be generated, just in a different town. So now, twice the pollution. Brilliant!

 The city gets to choose what they want to do.  In 2018 we sailed out of Amsterdam at the beginning our our itinerary.  We did not sail from the city center, but from a port at least 20 minutes away.  This was Seabourn 

[cruiseej]

7 hours ago, highplanesdrifters said:

But the pollution from the ship will still be generated, just in a different town.

 

I think the concept for new cruise terminals like this one is to build infrastructure for port-side electrical connections to ships, so their engines can be shut down or reduced to their lowest idle and they can run off electricity generated on land. And, over time, there will likely be cleaner natural gas busses if not electric busses, so bus pollution may decline as well. This requires all parties to "get it right", but it's definitely viable.