The Mayor of Nice and President of the Nice Côte d’Azur region, Christian Estrosi, got into a heated confrontation with Royal Caribbean International on July 3, after the Voyager of the Seas cruise ship arrived near Villefranche-sur-Mer, ignoring a newly enforced ban on large cruise ships.
The Voyager of the Seas, a massive 137,276 gross ton cruise ship with a capacity for 3,600 passengers, dropped anchor in the Villefranche roadstead at 6:30 a.m. The ship was carrying 3,114 passengers, along with around 1,200 crew members, according to Royal Caribbean’s data.
Estrosi claimed this was a clear violation of a new rule that came into effect on July 1, which bans ships with more than 2,500 passengers from disembarking in Villefranche or Nice.
Though port officials said the ship was on a pre-approved stop, Estrosi saw it as a direct test of the new environmental restrictions. He traveled by
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