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Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. And I'm Doug Parker. Thank you so much for being here as we gather around the microphones this week. Okay, old-timey broadcaster. Are we going to pump wattage into their cottage? We are. Don't forget, we have a Cruise Radio Live app. If you have a smartphone or a droid, just check out your market. It's called Cruise Radio Live. Get all the cruise news, listen to the show and all that cool stuff. On this episode, Mike Watts, VP of Marine Development with Cochran Marine. We'll join us about Shoreside Power and what initiatives are being done to make the cruise world greener. Also, listener James Bazler from Alabama will give us a ship review about the carnival conquest out of New Orleans.

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Very nice. But first, Stuart O'Shea on the Cruise guys here with us,

fresh off of Oceana Cruises Riviera. How was that?

That was absolutely amazing. It's a fantastic ship, definitely one of the best in the world,

and certainly purpose built for those Epicureans. Right on, right on. Now, Celebrity Reflection

got its final building block last week at Meyerworth's Shipyard. What does this mean? And how long

till we see or floated out and where is she going to go? Well, the last block, I mean, that's the last

part of the structure of the ship. So the ship itself, the structure of the ship is now complete.

And they're just going to be doing some additional interior work. She's not expected

out, I guess, until August, so we're probably not going to see her hit the water until probably

very late July. But, you know, they're going to, I mean, there's still a lot, a lot of work to go.

I was on the eclipse when, you know, she had just floated out the date, you know, a couple days before.

And there's an enormous amount of work because once the ship is prepared to leave the

shipyard, they actually sail backwards, 25 miles up the River M's in Germany, up to M's Haven

in the Netherlands, where the ship is completed. And then that's where it does its sea trials.

And where is she going to sail? She is going to be sailing in Europe, and then she's going to be coming home to Miami in the late fall, early winter. Royal Caribbean is cutting back with their ships in Europe for 2013 down from like, what, 12 to 9. Does Europe still have a long way to go, or is it starting to level out? Well, I think what a lot of lines are going to be doing in 2013 is they're going to limit their risk.

The European economies are taking quite a hit, and that is resulting on fewer passengers or fewer people traveling,

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