Are you going on a cruise where you will be getting off at a tender port? What this means is instead of simply walking off the ship, you’ll be taking a small tender boat to get to the cruise port.

Called "WLBs" by the Coast Guard, these vessels maintain the nation's buoys and other navigational aids used by all ships entering our ports. By 1994, many of the existing seagoing buoy tenders ...

The liner company is seeking for up to seven LNG dual-fuelled 15,000-teu vessels and three conventional fuel 8,000-teu ...

They also required taking a tender — a small ship that brought passengers from the ship to the island. That's an inconvenient process that's slow and involves a lot of standing in line.