I was just reading this excellent piece about the expansion of the cruise industry and terminals in Copenhagen and their desire to improve the terminals based upon some suggestions by the team in Juneau, Alaska.



Here's a short excerpt:



"Four representatives of Copenhagen, Denmark, were in Juneau on Friday learning more about Juneau’s cruise ship berths.



Copenhagen is in the process of constructing three new cruise ship berths, taking down others for urban development and reclaiming an area near the cruise terminals for shipping containers and cars. The construction will be a small expansion of the cruise ship capacity the port can handle.



The comprehensive project will cost 1.1 billion Danish krone, or approximately $250 million U.S. dollars.



The team is investigating the possibility of making shore power hookups at the planned cruise ship terminal mandatory — that includes what the investment would take, if the market would support it, and what the consequences of doing so would be."