Legal issues and challenges in addressing the coronavirus outbreak on large cruise ships: A critical examination of port state measures. [PDF]
Ocean Coast Manag, 2022 International cruises have drawn worldwide attention since the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19). This article first examines the legal issues, challenges and impact of the pandemic on large cruise ships, like the Diamond Princess, and then probes into ...
Sun S, Zhao LL.
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Eco-Trends in Energy Solutions on Cruise Ships
Energies, 2021 Today the world’s largest cruise ships can take on board more than 6000 passengers and almost 3000 crew members. Managing a significant number of people and all equipment and operations on ships requires the delivery of tens of thousands of kilowatts ...
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 This article proposes a comprehensive star rating approach for cruise ships by the combination of subject and objective evaluation. To do that, it firstly established a index system of star rating for cruise ships. Then, the modified TOPSIS is adopted to
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Prevention and Control of COVID-19 Pandemic on International Cruise Ships: The Legal Controversies. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2021 During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a number of international cruise ships were infected, thereby resulting in serious public health and human rights problems.
Zhang X, Wang C.
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Ports closed to cruise ships in the context of COVID-19: What choices are there for coastal states? [PDF]
Ann Tour Res, 2021 In the COVID-19 context will coastal States open their ports to cruise ships to meet the needs of people in danger? Can they prefer a more self-centered approach to protect their territory and exercise their sovereignty? The purpose of this study is to
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Dynamic Evacuation Planning on Cruise Ships Based on an Improved Ant Colony System (IACS)
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 The emergency evacuation route planning of cruise ships directly affects the safety of all crew members and passengers during emergencies. Research on the planning of emergency evacuation routes for cruise ships is a frontier subject of maritime safety ...
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Euro Surveill, 2022 Background Cruise ships provide an ideal setting for transmission of SARS-CoV-2, given the socially dense exposure environment. Aim To provide a comprehensive review of COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships.
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Public Health Responses to COVID-19 Outbreaks on Cruise Ships - Worldwide, February-March 2020. [PDF]
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2020 An estimated 30 million passengers are transported on 272 cruise ships worldwide each year* (1). Cruise ships bring diverse populations into proximity for many days, facilitating transmission of respiratory illness (2).
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Limiting spread of COVID-19 from cruise ships: lessons to be learnt from Japan. [PDF]
QJM, 2020 Limiting spread of COVID-19 from cruise ships: lessons to be learnt from Japan T. Sawano , A. Ozaki, A.J. Rodriguez-Morales, T. Tanimoto and R. Sah From the Department of Surgery, Sendai City Medical Center, Sendai, Miyagi 983-0824, Japan, Department of ...
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Cabin as a Home: A Novel Comfort Optimization Framework for IoT Equipped Smart Environments and Applications on Cruise Ships. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2019 The international tourism competition poses new challenges to the cruise sector, such as the achievement of the tourists’ satisfaction and the increase in on board comfort.
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