Cruise control

Travel writer Sarah Bennett expressed an opinion that cruise ship emissions were three to four times more CO2 per passenger.

However, taking into account a cruise ship is operating a number of fuel generating systems for a wide range of purposes/ services on board, to make a direct comparison with a passenger jet is really not that simple. The real situation is that prior to the current Covid-19 pandemic, there was a far greater amount of carbon and vapour produced by air travel than cruising. I would hope that in the future cruising remains an integral part of the mix of overseas tourism to New Zealand working in partnership with air travel as it has done for at least the past 40 years. I was lucky to have experienced 51 years in the businesses of shipping /cruise and air travel to know this.

Ian Read, Taupo¯.