Carnival Cruises threatens to leave
U.S. ports due to COVID rules
New York Daily News,
by
Joseph Wilkinson
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/6/2021 11:31:48 PM
Any port in a storm. Carnival Cruise Line threatened Tuesday to pull its ships from U.S. ports because of federal COVID cruise ship rules, USA Today reported. âWhile we have not made plans to move Carnival Cruise Line ships outside of our U.S. homeports, we may have no choice but to do so in order to resume our operations which have been on âpauseâ for over a year,â company president Christine Duffy said in a statement.(Snip) The CDC lifted a âno-sailâ order for cruise ships back in October 2020. However, no ships have departed from the U.S. under the Conditional Sail Order that replaced it.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/6/2021 11:53:44 PM (No. 746970)
How does the CDC have any jurisdiction over these ships?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vesicant 4/6/2021 11:55:43 PM (No. 746971)
Do it. Courage is its own reward.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
panther361 4/7/2021 12:10:12 AM (No. 746977)
It's all Trump's fault, right Jen?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/7/2021 12:38:47 AM (No. 746983)
Good! Someone needs to stand up to those spiteful tax dollar sucking bureaucrats who have lost every ounce of integrity they owned during this fiasco!
The CDC has been heavy handed with the cruise lines, stalling, ignoring, and stonewalling them for a year. 400k people have cruised out of Europe and Asia safely so far. At most 50 mild cases detected on ships and those were isolated and carefully disembarked and the ships were allowed to continue. The UK has confirmed sailing is open out of Britain in literally a couple months. So the cruiselines know what to do to be safe now just like airlines and hotels and resorts. But the CDC just throws lists of requirements back at the cruiselines that sail out of the US and treats them like they treat everyone, with utter disdain. It's disgusting!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
otaval 4/7/2021 6:59:54 AM (No. 747083)
we can fly in a tube about 20' wide but not on a ship about 130' at beam. only a liberal would say so.
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They just cancelled out cruise this June. It was to be a 45th anniversary cruise.. Instead, weâre going to cruise the Med on another cruise line...
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No, nothing is beyond the feds reach to screw-up.
All cruise ships need to get back to cruising. Time to sail.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/7/2021 7:42:42 AM (No. 747124)
The other cruise lines should do it too. I have a nephew who is a cruise ship director for Norwegian and he has been out of work for a year.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/7/2021 8:09:29 AM (No. 747168)
Personally, I would not think a vacation aboard a cruise ship was a good idea but then I thought the same way five years ago. If I'm going to spend time in the tropics it will be with my feet in the sand and my face in the sun.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/7/2021 8:46:31 AM (No. 747207)
If it were possible for the major international airlines to leave US airports, now THAT would wake them the hell up.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
janjan 4/7/2021 8:47:26 AM (No. 747208)
Carnival isnât going anywhere. A huge share of their revenue comes from the US - mainly from obnoxious minorities and young people drinking and puking for a week. Why put a stop to that fun?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Laotzu 4/7/2021 8:54:09 AM (No. 747219)
Do it! That drop in the cost of cruising from moving to an unregulated market would easily cover the cost of a short flight to a Caribbean or Mexican port.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/7/2021 9:15:50 AM (No. 747251)
#9 is correct.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
padiva 4/7/2021 10:26:58 AM (No. 747345)
Use Puerto Rico as a homeport. /s
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/7/2021 10:27:38 AM (No. 747346)
Mayor Lockdown in New Orleans would be tickled pink to get rid of one more employer.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/7/2021 10:50:09 AM (No. 747363)
This sounds like a shot across the ship's bough for fauci and his buddies at the cdc... lift your demands... or WE're out of here...should work because the DC elite are not up to a fight... just ask the Supreme Court..they folded like a cheap suit when challenged to right the stolen President Trump election...I think the sniffling DC crowd has contaminated water in their filtering system...that must explain their stupidity...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/7/2021 10:54:22 AM (No. 747366)
For some reason there is significant anti-cruise sentiment in the public. There are usually the "I'll never cruise" contingent posting here with these stories. I don't get it. Then I cruise and enjoy it.
The Feds clamped down with the stories of ships holding off shore when US ports refused to allow them to dock in the early days of COVIDS-mania. They were the poster children of fear. Superspreaders, etc. To back off now is to admit the worst has passed.
These cruise lines need the US market. Whether they can ferry enough people to nearby ports, such as Nassau or St. Maarten is a key. The other is expense - will cruisers pick up the extra cost? I have my doubts. Florida depends on its ports at Miami, Port Canaveral and Ft. Lauderdale, and government has made huge investments in these and others. DeSantis isn't up in arms for any other reason. There are bonds and state tax revenues in jeopardy for another year.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/7/2021 10:58:21 AM (No. 747375)
As a cruiser, I would never go on a cruise on Carnival. They are the bottom of the cruise lines.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/7/2021 11:28:42 AM (No. 747397)
#18 - Carnival is much larger than Carnival Cruises. The Carnival Corporation owns Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Princess Cruises, and Holland America, among others. They are the "big dog" in the business. Carnival is a party barge...Cunard decidedly not.
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