THE CRUISE EXAMINER - COMMENT ON THE LATEST CRUISE INDUSTRY NEWS BY MARK TRE'
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Monday March 08 - Week 10
Winter Cruising Weather - The MSC Magnifica - The Cruise Report
Two recent incidents in one week involving deaths on cruise ships lead one to remember that no matter how careful one is there are always risks at sea. To put things in proportion, these two incidents caused two passenger deaths out of the almost 20 million that go cruising every year, but even if that is only one in a million, the events are worth examining in a little more detail.
On a more upbeat note, MSC officially named its latest ship MSC Magnifica in Hamburg on the weekend and Carnival UK last week produced its second annual Cruise Report, indicating that it thinks the UK market will double to 3 million passengers by 2010.
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