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L.A. floats plan for massive cruise liners of future; proposed terminals would enable port to handle huge tour ships.

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When the massive Queen Mary 2 visited the Port of Los Angeles last year, the captain of what was then the world's biggest cruise liner had to take an unusual tack.

Reaching 235 feet in height, the luxurious Cunard liner was unable to fit under the harbor's Vincent Thomas Bridge to reach a basin to turn around, so the 154,400-ton ship had to sail down the port's main channel backward to reach the cruise ship terminal.

It's the kind of maneuver that makes the Los Angeles harbor unappealing to the growing numbers of mega-ships coming on line, of which the Queen Mary 2 was one of the first.

Now, in a bid to maintain its place as the country's fourth largest cruise line port and grab a bigger piece of the growing international cruise ship business, the port is proposing to build new terminals in its outer harbor that could cost as much as $100 million.

"There is a lot of competition among cities for...

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