May 9, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll see the Pride of America cruise ship arrive from Hawaii and head past Astoria (not stopping there) and head upriver to the shipyard in Portland for maintenance. Arriving from Hawaii, she has no passengers on board. An unusual thing about her is that she’s US flagged, because her cruise route takes her between the Hawaiian Islands, all part of the state of Hawaii. That makes her a Jones Act vessel, and as such she must be US flagged, US-built and crewed by US citizens or nationals.
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May 8, 2025 | Columbia River Ship Traffic, Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll talk a little about a somewhat mindboggling topic: what happens when a ship goes by… it’s connected to transit time, how long it takes a ship to get from one place to another. Massive ships move lots of water when they travel, and ships here are up against heavy current and tidal influences. We’ll talk about what defines transit time of the river.
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May 7, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
We have yet another huge, blue-water cruise ship in town, those behemoths that come in from out in the ocean to dock in Astoria for the day. Today we’ll take a look at what’s ahead for the Port of Astoria’s cruise ship season.
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May 6, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A look at ship traffic, with some diversions into the “whats” and “whys” of particular ships traveling on the river today.
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May 5, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
I got a listener question from someone this weekend who asked me why there were ships anchored in the river off Astoria. It’s a telling question, in this season of public anxiety about tariffs. We’ll talk about why those ships are a normal part of life here, and how to learn more about what may happen next.
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May 2, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll talk about marine weather and ship schedules, but also about why there were so many cruise ships in Astoria this week. The answer lies in a cruise industry protocol that happens around this time of year: repositioning cruises, to take ships from their winter grounds to their summer grounds. Astoria is along the way for these West Coast maneuvers, and people like out city. So they stop here along the way to somewhere else.
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