While we don't normally pay a lot of attention to travel industry "awards," CruiseDiva.com would like to recognize the winners of an annual fleet-wide competition that highlights Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises' commitment to environmental innovation and improvement. Competing for the awards encourages and rewards crew members who advance their ships' environmental performance in ways that go above and beyond regulatory compliance.
Unlike other questionable awards that are often determined by reader polls, this one is reviewed by an independent environmental audit and consulting firm, Environmental Resources Management. The competition covered 2006 operations for 21 Royal Caribbean and nine Celebrity ships and judging was based on five criteria established by the cruise lines and auditing firm: Environmental performance; timeliness and effectiveness of corrective actions related to audit findings; reports of near incidents and non-conformities; submission of environmental status reports; performance of environmental equipment and innovative thinking.
And the winners are... Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas was selected as the Environmental Ship of the Year and Brilliance of the Seas as the Environmentally Innovative Ship of the Year; Celebrity Summit was honored as both the Environmental Ship of the Year and the Environmentally Innovative Ship of the Year for Celebrity.
Well done and our congratulations to the winners!
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