How can cruise companies escape a sinking PR ship?

With Thursday's news that a second Carnival cruise in as many months has been disabled by mechanical problems, the entire industry has some work to do.
By Matt Wilson | Posted: March 15, 2013
It hasn't been a great two months for Carnival Cruise Lines. A month to the day after the crippled Triumph cruise ship was towed into an Alabama port , the company announced Thursday that it would fly passengers off a ship docked in St. Maarten because of a mechanical failure. Carnival was also involved in the deadly wreck of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy last year . It owned the line of which that ship was a part. Friday morning, yet another read more...

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