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We are still very return focused. We have no hesitation to relocate a ship if necessary for it to overall have more accretive return for our business and just keep in mind it’s still so small.

– Arnold Donald,

CEO of Carnival Corporation water, with Cruisecritic.com noting: “Galveston is also just 30 use facility currently serving both cruise (on the south side) minutes from the open sea, so shops and the casino open fairly and cargo trades (on the north side).

quickly after sail away.” Professor Andrew Coggins, Profes- Charleston’s Union Pier, now seeing infrequent breakbulk sor in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University, told shipments, had earlier been a ro-ro terminal, and a terminal

MLPro, “Where cruising and cargo operations are in the same for rice exports before that. The SCSPA has been seeking to port, it can be tricky especially if they are not geographically reduce that footprint, creating a 20 acre cruise terminal ad- separated. In Houston, for example, there were instances of jacent to a park. In late January local news reports said that disruptions and delays when the Ship Channel was closed af- opponents of the cruise terminal were now asking the state’s ter accidents and oil spills. Even on normal days, attention to Supreme Court to overturn the late 2017 Appeals Court deci- scheduling of vessels coming inbound and outward is critical.” sion that would allow the permits to be issued (which upheld an Administrative ruling going back to 2014). It was not clear,

Push and Pull as of early February, whether the South Carolina Supreme

For ports, realism and forward thinking are critical. As far Court would hear the case. back as 2011, Port Houston’s marketing department had al- ready begun to scope out alternative uses for the cruise ter- More Change Coming?

minal, and by 2016 its planners noted that trends in the au- Going forward, the peculiarities of the cruise business may tomobile industry (including signi