<p class="title">Climate activists using small boats and climbing equipment blockaded a cruise ship for six hours in a German harbour to protest against its carbon emissions, police said on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">About 50 protesters with banners reading "Cruises kill climate" on Sunday delayed the departure of the Zuiderdam, operated by Holland America Line, from the North Sea port of Kiel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ship finally left around 10 pm (2000 GMT) for Copenhagen after police had temporarily detained 46 activists, several of whom had climbed onto the ship and onto a harbourside crane.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The activists were protesting against the "catastrophic local and global consequences of cruises" as well as what they claimed are the crew's poor working conditions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The group, which calls itself "Smash Cruiseshit", said on Twitter that heavy fuel-powered "cruise ships contribute to the heating of the planet" and generate soot particles that settle on Arctic ice.</p>
<p class="title">Climate activists using small boats and climbing equipment blockaded a cruise ship for six hours in a German harbour to protest against its carbon emissions, police said on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">About 50 protesters with banners reading "Cruises kill climate" on Sunday delayed the departure of the Zuiderdam, operated by Holland America Line, from the North Sea port of Kiel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ship finally left around 10 pm (2000 GMT) for Copenhagen after police had temporarily detained 46 activists, several of whom had climbed onto the ship and onto a harbourside crane.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The activists were protesting against the "catastrophic local and global consequences of cruises" as well as what they claimed are the crew's poor working conditions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The group, which calls itself "Smash Cruiseshit", said on Twitter that heavy fuel-powered "cruise ships contribute to the heating of the planet" and generate soot particles that settle on Arctic ice.</p>