Cruise ship blasts black cloud of soot into the ocean

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He understood the discharge was caused by “brief power failure” and came from “an advanced cooling system.” Mr Richards later posted that the ship disembarked from the port at 8.46pm local time – more than two hours after its scheduled departure. It’s more than 100 miles from Grand Turk to its next stop, Amber Cove in Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic, with the ship due on Thursday morning local time. Carnival Cruise Line is part of Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company and also home to lines such as P&O Cruises, Cunard, Seabourn and Costa Cruises. The cruise industry has made repeated pledges to move towards a green model of operating, though a new report in the summer found that cruise ships were responsible for more than four times the sulphuric emissions into Europe’s atmosphere than all of the continent’s car last year.