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Article: Port takes control of private cruise consortium. (Cruise Ship Consortium)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 13, 1991
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Sidestepping concerns that the action may result in "bureaucratizing" the independent Cruise Ship Consortium, the Board of Port Commissioners has voted to bring the eight-year-old group under the port's tight rein.
The vote to take over the cruise group came amid warnings that the consortium has done an effective job putting San Diego on the cruise industry map and shouldn't be subject to board "fidding," as dissenting Commissioner Dan Larsen put it.
Under the new plan, the 16-member consortium will be reorganized into a port advisory panel and will work with a newly hired cruise ship liaison on the port staff. The advisory board will retain essentially ...