Showing posts with label cruise homeport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cruise homeport. Show all posts

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Carnival Drops a Homeport: Mobile, Alabama Not Ecstatic

When there's bad news, it often arrives in multiples. My mother used to predict that it came in triple digits. We're sure the folks in Mobile, Alabama have heard that bit of age old wisdom. First this week there was nasty weather and now they are going to suffer an economic hit. Their ship has sailed...or it will soon.Carnival Cruise Lines is repositioning Carnival Ecstasy from New Orleans,

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Savannah As A Cruise Port?

After eyeing the success of Charleston, SC as a port of call and homeport, television stations in Georgia, such as WRDW here in Augusta, are reporting the possibility that Savannah could become a cruising homeport as well. Pictured here is Carnival Fantasy docking in Charleston.The city of Savannah awarded a $129,500 contract to the consulting firm BEA Architects of Miami to do a market study