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All right, Stuart here on the cruise guy is with us. Hello, Stuart.

Hey, Matt, hey Doug?

Hey, man. Breaking news here. Another cruise line is canceling 2012 Mediterranean sailings.

Yes, Oceania is the latest. They're going to be canceling nine fall Mediterranean

sailings on regatta and replacing them with some Canada-New England sailings.

Are all these cancellations a result of the weakness in the region?

Well, it's interesting. Royal Caribbean, you know, canceled the navigator of the seas being in the Mediterranean year-round,

and they're going to be bringing it back to the Caribbean for the winter-spring season.

And, I mean, there is a weakness, and, you know, maybe there's going to be some better opportunities.

I mean, Canada and New England is doing very well.

Oceania is very excited about the opportunity to have, you know, a ship, you know, sailing, you know, in the region.

And I would not be surprised if other cruise lines decide to redeploy some of their ships maybe back to, you know, the U.S. ports either sooner rather than later

or altogether at least for 2012.

Costa announced pulling out of the MED on a couple of ports this year next season two, right?

Yes, Costa has canceled essentially all of the 2012 stops at Egypt and Tunisia, just simply, you know, out of precaution.

And it's interesting at this point, only one cruise line, you know, Princess recently announced that they actually began revisiting Alexandria Egypt on their May 2011

sailings, but we're still kind of on a waiting pattern to see if the other cruise lines

decide to bring their ships back. But at this point, I mean, you're dealing with a very tenuous situation.

You know, there is no government in place, and, you know, bringing in their ships and passengers that may not be the best time to do it.

NCL recently announced they're going green.

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