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.
My city hosts a number of cruise ships, and it was explained to me they can’t be connected to the city grid, so they instead keep their diesel engines running the entire time.
It’s a local air quality issue, and the bigger the ship the more it pollutes locally, even though it might be more efficient on a global level.