Another carnival cruise liner is stranded.
The container port may be in decline, but the city is luring cruise liners.
On Saturday a group of pirates off the cost of Somalia discovered just how powerful sound can be, when their attack on a luxury cruise liner was thwarted by an ear-splitting blast.
Nearby Muttrah has a charming Mediterranean-style waterfront and a harbour now used mainly by cruise liners.
A magician on a cruise liner had a parrot, who'd seen all the magician's tricks a million times, long ago having figured out how the magician made everything in the act disappear.
The cruise liner will sail out next week.