• Creative Penny Currency Repurposing: Shipboard teams successfully gathered, counted, and rolled nearly one thousand pounds of spare coins to generate five thousand dollars for local scouting troops.
• Scouting Leadership Development Funding: The combined donation directly supports Ketchikan Troops 4 and 2004, providing resources for youth community service initiatives and outdoor adventures.
• Long Term Regional Infrastructure Investments: Holland America Line continues its deep eighty-year history in the state with a major seventy-million-dollar expansion project in Denali slated for 2027.
• Record Breaking Seasonal Fleet Deployments: Princess Cruises is executing its largest Alaska cruise season to date, featuring 180 total departures and the regional debut of the Star Princess flagship.

According to an inspiring community relations update published by the Holland America Line and Princess Cruises corporate newsroom, a creative recycling initiative has turned spare shipboard currency into vital local resources. In an impressive demonstration of regional partnership, the two sister cruise lines pooled together hundreds of pounds of excess pennies collected from twelve different Alaska-bound vessels. The massive coin collection was formally presented alongside a generous cash donation to Scouting America Troop 4 and Troop 2004 during a special celebratory gathering in Ketchikan, Alaska.

The unique collection project required extensive collaboration across multiple onboard ship departments, including guest services, casinos, and finance offices. Crew members carefully sorted, counted, and rolled nearly one thousand pounds of pennies, transforming a distinct storage challenge into five thousand dollars of direct funding for local youth programming. This resourcefulness ensures that the retired yet legal tender coins are repurposed to fund essential leadership development, outdoor adventures, and volunteer community service projects across the region.

This collaborative donation highlights a profound, eight-decade commitment to supporting the social fabric of Alaskan port communities. While Princess Cruises is currently navigating its largest regional deployment in history with eight premium ships, Holland America Line is simultaneously advancing local infrastructure, including a substantial seventy-million-dollar expansion project at Denali scheduled for completion in 2027. By continually backing vital local nonprofits, veterans groups, and scouting programs, both cruise brands are ensuring that the growth of regional maritime tourism directly strengthens the future leaders, first responders, and families who call the majestic northern coastline home.

About Holland America Line:

Holland America Line has been exploring the world for more than 150 years with expertly crafted itineraries, extraordinary service and genuine connections to the destinations. Offering a perfectly-sized ship experience, its fleet of 11 vessels visits nearly 400 ports in 114 countries around the world and has shared the thrill of Alaska for more than 75 years — longer than any other cruise line. Savour the Journey isn’t just a tagline, it’s a reinforcement that the cruise line provides experiences too good to hurry through, connecting travelers to the world and each other. Award-winning enrichment programming, entertainment and cuisine that brings each locale on board, including a revolutionary Global Fresh Fish Program, put Holland America Line at the forefront of premium cruising. Holland America Line is part of Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company with a portfolio of cruise lines operating in over 800 ports & destinations worldwide. (NYSE: CCL).    

About Princess Cruises:  

Princess Cruises is The Love Boat, the world’s most iconic cruise brand that delivers dream vacations to millions of guests every year in the most sought-after destinations on the largest ships that offer elite service personalization and simplicity customary of small, yacht-class ships. Well-appointed staterooms, world class dining, grand performances, award-winning casinos and entertainment, luxurious spas, imaginative experiences and boundless activities blend with exclusive Princess MedallionClass service to create meaningful connections and unforgettable moments in the most incredible settings in the world – the Caribbean, Alaska, Panama Canal, Mexican Riviera, Europe, South America, Australia/New Zealand, the South Pacific, Hawaii, Asia, Canada/New England, Antarctica, and World Cruises. Star Princess, the brand’s newest and most innovative ship, launched October 2025, and sister ship to Sun Princess, named Condé Nast Traveler Mega Ship of the Year for a second consecutive year. The company is part of Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company with a portfolio of cruise lines operating in over 800 ports & destinations worldwide (NYSE: CCL).