Swiss company rightly controls Mississippi River cruise ship, Second Circuit rules

MANHATTAN (CN) - The Second Circuit affirmed Friday that a European cruise company has the right to control a luxury ship on the Mississippi River, refuting a U.S. cruise line's claims that officials wrongfully forced it to compete with a foreign entity in "U.S. citizen-reserved coastwise trade."

In dispute was how much control over the operation was granted to the Switzerland-based company, Viking, un