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(8:50 AM) — Watch out, Carnival and Royal Caribbean. Entertainment giant Disney is moving in on your turf.

The Disney Cruise Line today will announce its first voyages out of Miami — a cruise hub long dominated by locally-based Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line.

Disney plans to offer more than two dozen winter sailings out of the city starting in December, even as it cuts back on cruises on the West Coast. The trips will take place aboard the 1,754-passenger Disney Wonder, which is re-locating to Miami from Los Angeles and no longer will operate itineraries to the West Coast of Mexico.

“We’ve been pleased with the itineraries in Mexico, but guests are looking for more,” Disney President Karl Holz tells USA TODAY in an exclusive interview. “It was time to explore other options.”

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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The very public dispute between Captain Francesco Schettino and the owners of his stricken vessel is a symptom of lax regulation and supervision that can only add to pressure for the cruise line industry to be subjected to closer scrutiny.

The mudslinging over who decided the Costa Concordia should sail within 150 meters of the shoreline of an Italian island in a maneuver known as a “salute” to show the ship off has exposed wider concerns over how such vast ships should be controlled and how safe they really are.

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