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| Type |
Public |
| Founded |
1968 |
| Headquarters |
Miami, USA |
| Key people |
Richard D. Fain (CEO) |
| Industry |
Transportation |
| Products |
Cruises |
| Revenue |
USD 4,903 million (2005) |
| Operating income |
USD 871 million (2005) |
| Net income |
USD 715 million royalcarribean (2005) |
| Website |
http://www.rccl.no |
Royal Caribbean International (OSE: RCL royal carribeann NYSE: RCL) is a Norwegian-American cruise ship company based in Miami, Florida and Wichita, royal carriban Kansas. It is a brand of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., with 20 ships in service and one royal carrribean more under construction. All the ships royal carriben have names ending in "of the Seas." Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. also operates Celebrity Cruises.
U.S. headquarters in Miami, Florida.
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Contents
- 1 Company/Brand History
- 2 Royal royal carrabean royalcarriben Caribbean cruise ships
- 2.1 Genesis class
- 2.2 Freedom class
- 2.3 Voyager royal carribeean class
- 2.4 Radiance Class
- 2.5 Vision class
- 2.6 Sovereign class
- 2.7 Empress royal carribean of the Seas
- 2.8 Retired royal carribean cruises Ships
- 3 Private resorts
- 4 Muster Drill
- 5 Onboard royal carribean cruise Security
- 6 George Allen Smith case
- 7 Corporate royal carribean cruise line crimes during the 1990s
- 8 Environmental Awards
- 9 External links
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Company/Brand History
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Royal Caribbean cruise ships
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Genesis class
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Freedom class
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Voyager class
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- Brilliance of the Seas
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Retired Ships
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Onboard Security
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George Allen Smith case
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On July 5, 2005, passengers on board the royal carribean cruises reviews Brilliance of the Seas reported what appeared to be blood on a royal carribean freedom of seas part of the ship below passenger balconies. After a search, George Allen Smith was discovered to be royal carribean galveston cruises missing and thought to have fallen overboard. A criminal investigation into possible foul play was conducted, and a royal carribean man overboard brief press release on the company's investor relations website announced the royal carribean website settlement of the case on June 29th.[1]
Corporate crimes during the 1990s
In the late 1990s, Royal Caribbean was twice fined for violating U.S. environmental cruising regulations. They virtual tours on royal carribean cruises pleaded guilty on June 8, 1998, to charges of dumping fuel employment with royal carribean cruises oil on the high seas, using falsified records to cover it galveston cruises royal carribean up, and even destroying a bypass pipe on the Sovereign of the Seas to further cover it up. It additionally royal carribean and celebrity cruises pleaded guilty on July 26, royal carribean cheap cruises 1999, to 21 felony charges in connection to dumping fuel oil in U.S. territorial waters and the accompanying coverups. Royal Caribbean royal carribean cruiselines was forced to pay a total of US$27 million (€25 million, 211 million royal carribean cruises excursion reviews NOK) in fines. [2]
Environmental Awards
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External links
- Royal Caribbean website
- Official history of the company
- Royal Caribbean UK royal carribean cruises chat boards & Ireland website
- Royal Caribbean Freedom of the Seas website
- Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas website
- CruiseJournals.com - Cruise Community royal carribean cruises cheap Pages
- A Royal Caribbean fan website and online forum.
- Caribbean Cruise Pictures
- Photographs of RCCL Retired royal carribean cruises from miami and Present-day Vessels
- Celebrity Cruises website
- Celebrity Cruises UK royal carribean cruises in january website
- Atmospheric and oceanic research aboard the Explorer of the Seas
- Aker Finnyards - Ship construction yard (Voyager royal carribean cruises mexican riveria class, Freedom class, Project Genesis)
- George Allen Smith Controversy
- Transcript on royal carribean cruises to cayman island Larry King Live! of the George Smith Controversy
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