US cruise ship Odyssey leaves Cambodia after running out of fuel funds

The striking detail is the scale of the cost shift: fuel per cabin rising from a historic $1,800 to $6,000–8,000 turns a viable itinerary into a loss-making one, and the operator's mitigations — slower sailing, longer port stays — were not enough. This is a demand-side casualty of an energy shock rather than a crypto or RWA story, but it illustrates how fuel input costs can overwhelm operating adjustments in asset-heavy, mobility-dependent businesses. Whether other operators face similar per-unit fuel pressure, and how fuel-cost exposure gets priced into travel and transport economics more broadly, is the open question.