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Article: After Year's Absence, Cruise Line Returns to L.A. Port.(Princess Cruises to resume weekly trips)(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 23, 2001
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After bowing out at the local market more than a year ago, Princess Cruises has decided to resume weekly trips again out of the Port of Los Angeles.
Beginning in late September, the cruise line will return to L.A. with a weekly seven-day voyage to the Mexican Riviera, an excursion that it hasn't offered on a regular basis since early 2000.
The company will launch the sailing season with the 1,950-passenger Sea Princess, a 77,000-ton ship built in 1998. But in March, the cruise line will replace the Sea Princess with the new Star Princess, a $450 million ship being built at an Italian shipyard. During the summer months, the Star Princess will sail to ...