Posted on 11/18/2020 12:00:32 PM PST by Capt. Tom
Cruise News Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Cancels All U.S. Departures Until February 2021 With Carnival Cruise Line still developing its plan to meet the CDC Conditional Sailing Order framework it has decided to cancel all U.S. departures until February 2021. There is even more bad news as cruises are also cancelled from select U.S. homeports until March 2021 and Carnival Legend out of Tampa for even longer.
So it’s looking like the cruise industry in the U.S. will have to wait a little longer with the largest cruise line in the world now cancelling a range sailings into March 2021. Here are the specifics:
All embarkations from U.S. homeports from Jan. 1-31. Additionally, Baltimore, Charleston, Jacksonville, Long Beach, Mobile, New Orleans and San Diego embarkations through Feb. 28. Embarkations on Carnival Legend out of Tampa through March 26.
Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line, said: “We are committed to meeting the CDC requirements and keeping our guests and business partners informed of our progress.”
“The entire Carnival team appreciates the great support of our guests, travel advisors and business partners, and local officials in our homeports and destinations.”
Which Carnival Cruise Ships Will Sail in 2021? The initial return to service will be out of PortMiami and Port Canaveral in Florida. The Port of Galveston will then follow them in Texas. Other homeports in the U.S. will have to wait until March 2021 at the earliest, and no doubt more details will be released as more cruise ships resume sailings.
Carnival Horizon is arriving back into the U.S. this week to prepare for the restart of cruises and be among the first ships in the fleet to do so out of Florida. Carnival Breeze will also return to the U.S. next week.
16 Carnival cruise ships are set to resume operations in 2021, including Carnival Conquest, Dream, Ecstasy, Elation, Freedom, Glory, Liberty, Miracle, Panorama, Pride, Sensation, Sunrise, Sunshine, and Vista. Mardi Gras, which is under construction at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland, is still scheduled to debut out of Port Canaveral on February 6, 2021.
Four other Carnival vessels are undergoing dry docks in early 2021 and they will return to service when they can. This includes upgrades for Carnival Magic, Carnival Paradise, and Carnival Valor. The Carnival Victory transformation into Carnival Radiance will still go ahead next year too.
Why More Carnival Cancellations?
It seems preparing for the return of cruise operations is going to take time. Carnival Cruise Line is in the process of developing a gradual phased-in approach next year. However, this needs to be a safe return to operations and follow the Conditional Sailing Order framework from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A lot needs to be done before cruises can begin, including training crew members on new health procedures, stress testing protocols with trial sailings, introducing new tech, and a lot more, which Carnival Cruise Line should be detailing soon.
These cruise lines are at the mercy of health organizations like our CDC, and the politics of the many Govts. worldwide, and the fear of Covid-19.
In the meantime without income they drift closer to bankruptcies, without any income and expensive and aging collateral, plus expenses eating away at their savings and borrowed money. -Tom
That is going to be an economic disaster on the employees and other people servicing these cruise ships. -Tom
End goal, no cars, no flying, no cruises, no going out for entertainment, a drink or meal. Oh, and about that single family home. It either needs to be a hut, pod or multi-tenant housing. #COVIDISM
Yes it is sad. We only have 5 acres to run around on Trapped here on only 220,000 sq ft or so.
Luckily it is fenced tight with a locked gate.
Everyone is going to die , but the fear of Covid has been made into a fear that overcomes heart attacks, accidents, and the many illnesses that bring us down.
I was just saying to my wife the fear is being deliberately pushed into everyone's life, like just recently they say tests show males who recuperate have remains of covid in their testicles.
Then they follow it up with can it be transmitted sexually to frighten females.
Then hey claim research shows some recovered covid people 3 months later develop mental illnesses.
Well back to cruising; no doubt a Biden administration will kill cruising as we knew it. -Tom
I can do plenty of roaming here. Next to National Forest. 18 miles to nearest store, 13 of it gravel, all hilly. We’ve got 15 acres, 12 with electric fence and this is a tiny property for this area. Most are increments of 40 acres from when the fedgov was giving away 160 acre chunks. No way we could do without our own transportation. If the crazies get in now or later and outlaw beef, this place will be in a world of hurt. I drive by well over 1,000 head going to the store. They’ll all have to swap to meat goats with all the muslims and hispanics they’ll bring in. They won’t deny them there favorite meat.
Good golly.
Right on target. My wife has stage-4 cancer, and she is so scared of covid she won’t step out of the house, and wants to quarantine me every time I go out to the store or something.
Definitely I am 100 times more scared of cancer watching my wife’s health deteriorate and how bad the side effects are of chemo & Keytruda etc. Covid is just another variety of flu, just more contagious right now because it is a new virus and no one had immunity to it from previous exposures.
Does anyone think the influenza virus is not everywhere we come in contact with other people? We all don’t get sick because of immunity based on past exposures, and there is a 50% effective vaccine for influenza every season.
I have come to believe the father of lies is running this, all of it.
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