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Despite the Great Recession, millions have disposable income. It helps that plenty of retired Americans are able to spend money for the luxury of cruises.
For Seattle, that means going to Alaska, a route that is growing again after the state reduced a passenger head tax that had dampened cruise-ship visits.
Even with the Alaska tax, Seattle expects more than 864,000 passengers to embark here this year. That’s down from 2010′s record 931,698. But the passenger count in 1999 was 6,615.
Seattle has proved a continuous draw, starting with Norwegian in 2000 and adding Disney this year. The lines use 11 vessels, typically on weeklong voyages.
From the Seattle Times
A tragic workplace accident aboard the Bright Ocean has claimed the life of a fellow dockworker. A PD Ports spokeswoman said operations at the Port of Hartlepool were suspended for the day as a mark of respect. Our thoughts are with Brother Harrison's family.An investigation has been launched after a dock worker was killed in a 30ft fall at a North-East port on Sunday.
The 59-year-old, named locally as Bob Harrison, was supervising the loading of steel tubes into the hold of a cargo ship, the Bright Ocean, at the PD Ports-run Irvine’s Quay, in Ferry Road, Hartlepool , when he fell down a hatch.
He landed on the steel floor of the ship’s hold, suffering spine and head injuries.
Despite the efforts of firefighters, paramedics and a doctor flown in by the Great North Air Ambulance, he died shortly after his arrival by helicopter at The James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough.
The ship’s crew alerted emergency services at 7.30pm on Sunday. A doctor was lowered into the hold, where he treated the injured man before he was put into the air ambulance and taken to hospital.
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“I’m scared,” said Commissioner Helen Bentley, the former head of the Federal Maritime Commission and a five-term congresswoman. “I understand that the longshoremen have to be protected — and they have been for many years. But the new leadership at the ILA has been making threats unlike any we’ve had on the East and Gulf coast negotiations in 35 years.”
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service announced Thursday that the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance will resume negotiations during the week of Sept. 17, just two weeks before the contract is set to expire.
ILA spokesman Jim McNamara said mediators contacted both sides Wednesday to get talks back on track.
“This is encouraging. We’re grateful,” McNamara said. “It’s before Oct. 1, so, yeah, there’s time.”
Bentley agreed it was encouraging but remained cautious.
“I’m glad to have the FMCS because it means the federal government is very serious about this,” she said. “The administration certainly did not want a waterfront strike before the election.”
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