Disney Cruise Line gets A- rating by environmental group, others get Fs

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It turns out Castaway Club members aren’t the only ones who think Disney Cruise Line is spectacular. An environmental group thinks so, too. Friends of the Earth just released the 2019 Cruise Ship Report Card and rated Disney Cruise Line an overall grade of A-, while others got Cs and even Fs.

Friends of the Earth, an international network of organizations across 74 countries around the world, issued a Cruise Ship Report Card in which it evaluated and ranked 16 major cruise lines in terms of environmental impact, from sewage treatment and air pollution reduction to water quality compliance, transparency of information, and even criminal violations. Friends of the Earth wrote in the report card that taking a cruise has the potential to be more harmful to both the environment and personal health than any other form of travel.

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“It is regrettable that Friends of the Earth and other groups continue to issue misleading and inaccurate information about the cruise industry,” Megan King, spokeswoman for Cruise Lines International Association, a cruise industry trade association, wrote to USA Today. “The measures used by the FOE are very narrow and do not tell the true story of the leadership position that the industry has taken in these areas.”

Each cruise line was graded for the specified criteria, and the grades were averaged to create the final grade for each cruise line. By what looks to be a landslide, Disney achieved the highest grade overall. Disney Cruise Line was also the only cruise line to respond to Friends of the Earth’s request for environmental data from the past two years, which went into the evaluation of transparency.

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Here’s a list of all the cruise lines included in the report card by Friends of the Earth:

  • Disney Cruise Line: A-
  • Norwegian Cruise Line: C-
  • Celebrity Cruises: D+
  • Silversea Cruises: D
  • Royal Caribbean International: D
  • Regent Seven Seas Cruises: D
  • Oceania Cruises: D-
  • MSC Cruises: F
  • Seabourn Cruise Line: F
  • P&O Cruises: F
  • Costa Cruises: F
  • Princess Cruises: F
  • Holland America Line: F
  • Cunard Line: F
  • Crystal Cruises: F
  • Carnival Cruise Lines: F

You can read the full cruise report card by Friends of the Earth on the official website here.

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Source: USA Today

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