Starting next year, Cannes, France’s fourth-biggest cruise ship port, will ban certain cruise ships in a bid to improve the city’s air quality. The ban will target ships that do not respect a 0.1% cap on sulfur in their fuel and could stop some passengers from disembarking. Under the European Union’s clean air policy, the cap is already enforced in Baltic, North Sea and Channel ports and it may be extended to the Mediterranean.
