1.   American courts have generally agreed that the law applies to ship owners with substantial business interests in the United States, a definition that covers the major cruise lines.

2.   All the major cruise lines are acknowledging they use discounting to fill the growing number of staterooms.

3.   All the major cruise lines seem to be on a building spree.

4.   Every major cruise ship sailing out of U.S. ports is registered with a foreign country, usually Panama or Liberia.

5.   Finally, while southern Florida remains the home port for most major cruise lines, occasional or seasonal cruises are steadily increasing from a variety of other ports.

6.   He includes addresses and phone contacts for major cruise lines and for agencies that specialize in supplying ships with lecturers, entertainers and the like.

7.   In the past, the major cruise lines would move their ships across from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean sometime in October.

8.   It points to a multistate action to clean up the Mississippi River and criminal action against a major cruise line operator as examples of its work.

9.   Karp suggests that Shore Trips represents not a threat to the major cruise lines but a motivation for new business.

10.   Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency said that all six major cruise lines that sail to Alaska violated state and federal air pollution laws last summer.