The mayor of Nice is moving to ban large cruise ships from docking in its port, aiming to tackle pollution and overtourism. The decision mirrors Venice’s 2021 ban, introduced to protect its fragile environment and infrastructure.
The mayor of Nice is moving to ban large cruise ships from docking in its port, aiming to tackle pollution and overtourism. The decision mirrors Venice’s 2021 ban, introduced to protect its fragile environment and infrastructure.
Cruiseships are still much, much more polluting even though they carry thousands of people. Look st some of the graphs here: https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/luxury-cruise-giant-emits-10-times-more-air-pollution-sox-all-europes-cars-study
For example looking at Barcelona, the 105 cruiseships that arrived in a year there polluted 5-6x as much as half a million cars did that year. So by that metric, for 1 cruiseship, you can operate 25000 cars.
One cruise operator alone had a pollution in Europe 10 times that of all cars in Europe. Another cruise operator added another 4 times the European car fleet. So if we were to ban all cars in Europe, that would only compensate 7% of the emissions of two of the cruise ship operators.