Norwegian Cruise Line Cancels All Cruises Until 2021

Cruise Hive ^ | NOV. 2, 2020 | Robert McGillivray

[Capt. Tom]

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings has today announced a cancellation of all of its voyages within all brands. Voyages onboard Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, and Regent Seven Seas have all been canceled until December 31st, 2020, at least.

The announcement comes just days after the announcement from the CDC to lift the No-Sail-Order. Although the company did not give specific details on the cancellations and the reasoning behind it, CEO Frank Del Rio had stated earlier last month that it would take up to 60 days to prepare the vessels for operations.

It could also be expected that the protocols and regulations that the CDC has demanded from the cruise lines need significant time to prepare. The CDC released a 40-page document with protocols that will need time and preparation to be executed properly.

Why does it take 60-days to prepare a ship? While a 60-days period might seem extravagant to prepare a vessel for operations, in these times, it seems to be a relatively healthy estimate. There are several factors the cruise lines will need to take into account when starting up a ship.

Many countries are returning to a lockdown to curb the infection rates. Flying crew in from other countries is becoming harder and harder to do. In many countries, national travel is difficult or even impossible. Cruise lines will need to find the human resources to put onboard. It seems unlikely all ‘regular’ crew members will be able to join the vessels.

Ships have been at anchor or cold layup for six to seven months now. While a ship at anchor means the engines have been running most of the time, and there would be a skeleton crew onboard to maintain the vessel, a ship at cold layup means there was little to no crew onboard. Getting these ships back into shape will require time and effort. It even looks like Norwegian will take some or most of its vessels into dry dock before operations start.

Once the ships are running, and the crew is onboard, there is still COVID testing and quarantine periods. These could take up to two weeks. In that time, the crew will most likely not be allowed to work onboard. That means that training the crew to deal with the COVID regulations will need to happen afterward. All in all, these measures alone will take a significant amount of time. On top of that, there are the CDC’s regulations to take into account.

What is the CDC requiring? As we said above, the first step would be to test all crew onboard. Once this has been done, and crew members are trained and ready to go, there are ‘mock voyages’ to go through.

These are voyages where the CDC will place observers onboard the vessels, and volunteers will act as guests. The goal is for the cruise lines to show the CDC that they are ready for guests and can mitigate or avoid any infection and transmission on board.

Only when the CDC is fully satisfied will a ship receive a certificate with which they may sail. As there is no precedent for the current situation and it is unclear how the CDC will react to the measures on board, the cruise lines will undoubtedly do all they can to be ready.

With these issues in mind, it is not surprising that Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings has chosen to cancel all voyages and ensure they are ready when the time does come to sail. With this announcement, the company has bought itself 60 days to get ready instead of rushing into an unknown.

[Capt. Tom]

Norwegian is the weak sister of the 3 biggest cruise lines.(CARNIVAL, ROYAL, NORWEGIAN.)

They would be the first IMHO to seek bankruptcy if it comes to that, and they suffer anymore setbacks.

These cancellations to me are a good move since they can benefit from the early Cruise line starts of others.

The problem for Norwegian is more money spent and no income for more months.

Our CDC can shut down cruising again, as we get into Jan.-Feb.-March.

WE can't stop the virus in our hospitals or the White House, and yet we expect cruise ships to stop it at the height of the Flu season.

Two cruise lines have tried, and failed overseas already. -Tom

[Meatspace]

Who would believe that Norwegian Wood do this.

Isn’t it good, Norwegian Wood?

[libh8er]

Given the tyranny of the CDC, you think Norwegian Woodn’t ?

[DariusBane]

Bunch of overpaid useless gubment parasites destroying an industry. Sad.

[entropy12]

I am not surprised considering the status of covid-19 infections. My guess is March 2021. By then vaccines should be out in force. If they work, psychology of fear will change quickly.

[RayChuang88]

I have always said until the COVID-19 vaccines start rolling out at the end of 2020, don’t expect cruise lines to operate until at least March 2021. I expect both Carnival and Royal Caribbean to start cruises on a very limited basis in March 2021 and fully ramp up by the end of 2021.

[ASOC]

Nobody want to take the “Three Hour Tour” and be stuck on a Plague Ship for weeks - or longer...

Too much risk, not of disease, that is an already massive risk - but being stuck on a ship no country will allow to dock...

[politicianslie]

WE can't stop the virus in our hospitals or the White House

Trump listened to his dumba$$ doctors. He was using an effective drug earlier in the spring but he stopped using it. And then when Trump had symptoms, he did NOTHING but wait to get sicker.

The following table shows that the virus is EASILY treated and cured, if used within the first FIVE days of symptoms.

I am one of the THOUSANDS on this table who used one of these doctors to treat the China virus. When you loose your smell&taste, it's time to act. I started the drug treatment on the 3rd day of my symptoms.

This YALE Prof/Doctor also says that people are FOOLS to listen to the gubermint's co-conspirators like Fauci. HCQ+Zn is an effective treatment IF GIVEN EARLY.

VIDEO Fauci during the AIDES years also played the testing needed game, 17,000 died because Fauci insisted double blind testing is needed before he would approve what they knew was an effective drug

Fauci is working for PHARMA. IF there is an effective treatment, then PHARMA has to test, cannot use fast cycled drugs. To test normally, PHARMA would loose $BILLIONS. To block the use of HCQ+Zn, PHARMA made $BILLIONS more.

And Fauci is a radical leftist DimWIT.

[Professional]

They should let Migrants borrow the boats until they need them back? That would be some true Scandinavian hospitality?

[mewzilla]

NYS passed liability protection, both criminal and civil, for nursing homes.

Couldn’t FL pass WuFlu liability protection for cruise operators there?

[Palio di Siena]

Go crawl off and sleep in the bath.

[Rebelbase]

Be at ulls tune.

[Capt. Tom]

“I am not surprised considering the status of covid-19 infections. My guess is March 2021. By then vaccines should be out in force. If they work, psychology of fear will change quickly.”

I believe about a hundred million Americans will not take the vaccine. There will not be any knowledge of long term side effects for many years.
That will present more problems for the Cruise lines.
Are you going to allow unvaccinated people onboard-or will the CDC allow that? -Tom

[BwanaNdege]

Link to the Table, please!

Great info!

[DugwayDuke]

entropy12 wrote: “I am not surprised considering the status of covid-19 infections. My guess is March 2021. By then vaccines should be out in force. If they work, psychology of fear will change quickly.”

Vaccines won’t help. Fauci has already said those vaccines with the earliest availability won’t immunize people, they will only keep them from being symptomatic. IOW, the vaccines will create a bunch of asymptomatic people who can still spread the virus.

[entropy12]

I would prefer asymptomatic anytime of the day over symptomatic. If vaccinated people won’t get sick enough to be hospitalized, it will reduce fear of covid-19.

I am now 100% sure I was infected on the Carnival cruise early this year. Had a strange and unusual dry cough for a 10-12 days post-cruise. My body fought it off and I never got sick again, and continuing normal activities. Florida did not close down much at all. All my favorite seafood joints along beach on A1A highway are open. I go to Walmart and Aldi every week. I escort wife every 3 weeks for cancer treatments. I think I am immune from that mild infection in early March. So what if I am 80 years old.

The vaccine will be very effective in reducing fear of covid-19 similar to my losing fear of getting sick.

[DugwayDuke]

I hope you’re right about your immunity. I’m fairly certain wife and I contacted CV on a cruise back in sep 2019.

However, many think that a vaccine would allow them to return to normal. If as Fauci claimed, the vaccines would only treat the symptoms, not provide immunity, then those who take the vaccines could still spread the virus.
Look at it this way. Supposedly, you should wear a mask and practice all the protocols in the event you’re infected but asymptomatic. Then the vaccine won’t allow the lifting of the restrictions since you can still infect others. It’s the same old “wear a mask to protect others, not to protect yourself”.

[Capt. Tom]

“I expect both Carnival and Royal Caribbean to start cruises on a very limited basis in March 2021 and fully ramp up by the end of 2021.”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

ROYAL CARRIBEAN has joined NORWEGIAN today in shutting down cruises in this country for the rest of the year.

The Question is will CARNIVAL join them shortly?
Stay tuned.-Tom

[Capt. Tom]

Excerpt from Cruise Hive tonight. -Tom
“MSC Cruises has joined other major cruise lines by canceling cruises for the remainder of 2020. MSC is not planning on returning to service in the U.S. until January 2021 at the earliest.”.........................................

Can CARNIVAL be far behind? -Tom

[entropy12]

Fauci has been wrong so many times, now I am convinced he is just a democrat masquerading as an “expert”.

Europe has been doing everything Fauci is pushing, and their problems are worse by order of magnitude than ours.

I do not believe an asymptomatic infected person exudes enough virus cells to affect healthy people. Unless he/she is talking loudly in your face. I get out of any area in a store if I hear someone coughing because that is how huge number of virus cells are in the air.

A very small number of virus cells entering a healthy person acts similar to a vaccine. All vaccines inject weakened cells into your blood stream, creating immune properties. A minor invasion of virus cells acts in similar manner. That explains why in spite of draconian lockdowns most Europe is worse off than Sweden where minimum lockdowns was the norm. Swedes acquired herd immunity from minor exposures to the virus.

Depend and learn from actual results that relying on self professed experts such as Fauci.