Amsterdam to close cruise ship terminal amid effort to restrict tourism

Move by city council follows action to limit public cannabis use and to discourage wild partying by young Britons

Amsterdam's city council has decided to close a cruise ship terminal in its centre, in the latest attempt to limit mass tourism in the Dutch capital.

Polluting cruise ships are not in line with the sustainable ambitions of our city," said a statement from the centre-right party D66, which runs the city with the social democrats PvdA and GroenLinks environmentalists.