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We're about a month into Carnival Cruise Lines using Charleston as one of it's home ports and Allyson Bird over at The Post and Courier took a look at the makings of the weekly cruises to the Bahamas and Key West. 

To be short, it's no simple task to load and unload 2,600 and all their belongings and trash within a few hours.

Check out the story here.

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