MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Cruise industry convention to address fuel prices

The major representatives from the world cruise industry are meeting this week in Miami to address the industry's problems that have significantly eroded profits and threaten even more, given the current prices of fuel.

The 24th cruise conference opened this Monday and will extend until next Thursday in the Miami Beach convention center where 10.000 people linked to the industry and over a thousand stands from a hundred different countries will be on display, according to the organizers. The event is organized by the Florida Caribbean Cruise and Cruise Lines International and includes seminars, experts' conferences, and state of the industry, innovations, the new mega vessels and international schedules. "Seatrade Cruise Shipping" brings together the largest cruise companies in the world. The Florida cruise association is made up of eleven companies that together operate a hundred vessels calling into tourism destinations all over the globe. Some of those companies are Carnival Corporation; Royal Caribbean; Celebrity Cruises; Disney Cruise Line; Princess Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises.