Fines, penalties, even stopping a ship or entire cruise line from operating in the U.S. are possibilities that the CDC will be looking at. In the worst-case scenario, the CDC could implement a new No-Sail-Order if they feel cruise lines have not implemented their 74-step program correctly.
Does anyone believe that government will not find a way to “Fine” a Cruise Line for not correctly implementing step 68?
They will Kill the Cruise Line industry in the USA and then complain that Jamaica replaces Florida as the Cruise hub for the Caribbean; Puerto Vallarta replaces LA for Mexican cruises; and Vancouver replaces Seattle for Alaskan cruises.
When Brigham and women's hospital in Boston had a recent out break of CoVID a few weeks ago, affecting 57 patients and hospital staff, all from a patient who tested NEGATIVE two times , and the various cruise line around the world changing itineraries because of Covid ashore, the most recent is AIDA in Italy.
The Cruise Lines operating out of this country are going to be easy targets for our CDC to shut down.
The questions for the in debt Cruise Lines is do you want to incur more debt by spending millions of dollars to bring back crews to idle ships, and order fuel and food, and have other expenses only to be shut down for more months, with a no-sail order from our CDC.
I hope these cruise lines have some behind the scenes planning done if they go ahead.
Some of that planning may involve Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. (Reorganization) -Tom