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Hawaii Cruise Ships: The Plantations of the Sea

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[last updated. 2024] What is a place that is open air with Hawaii Wet and Wild (water park), Aiea Bowl (bowling alley), and several dozen eateries on board while bringing part of PearlRidge Mall and a Hotel that floats. These are the modern Cruise Ships that are floating cities and not your grandma's Matson Line Cruises (1950s). Hawaii state officials and the people in charge of decision making at the Department of Transportation in 2022 would reopen business to Mega Cruise Ships. Many cruises begin, stop or end in HawaiĘ»i, but hoist flags to avoid taxes and take advantage of how the government caters to cruises for their massive consumption of goods that ironically in Hawaii comes 90% from places not Hawaii sourced due to ”The Jones Act”. To find out about Hawaii cruises there has to be the source of all cruises that leads us all the way back to a man known as Francis Davidson Fraser. Francis Davidson Fraser’s ancestors settled in Colonial-Jamaica where they took ownership of seve...