Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carnival Conquest was the first cruise ship to plug into landside electrical power at the cruise capital of the world, PortMiami.

Cruise ships visit Halifax daily during much of the year, each spewing a town's worth of people — and a town's worth of pollution — into the city while docked in the port. "At some point, you know, ...

Fossil fuel-emitting cruise ships would have to walk the plank and abandon New York City ports unless they plug into clean shore power for energy, should a bill in the City Council become law. Intro.