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The Coral Princess, carrying up to 3,000 people, cruises beneath the Astoria Bridge before anchoring in the Columbia River in September.

 Hailey Hoffman/The Astorian

One of the bright spots at the Port of Astoria over the past decade is the emergence of cruise ships.

Cruise ships have stopped in Astoria since the early 1980s, but, over the past several years, the port of call has become an attraction for leisure travel in the Puget Sound, Alaska and Vancouver, British Columbia, markets. Up to 35 cruise ships with 75,000 passengers could arrive this year, a schedule weighted toward the spring and fall shoulder seasons for tourism on the North Coast.

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