Most insanity from Canadastan!
Maybe the shipping industry should ban together and prohibit all ships, to include tankers and cargo?
I would assume all of the normal employees have burned through UI and are broke, or working McJobs now.
Trueshit is doing it to hurt Alberta as much as anything else. All in the supposed reason of environmentalist, when he really wants to sell of the oil sands to the Chinese.
Alaskan and New England cruises will be toast .
Cozumel Mexico is right now offering MSC line ships, a chance to operate there, in the Mexican Caribbean.
IMHO The big 3 USA location ships have a lot invested in USA ports and will have to seek other alternatives.
Below are some interesting paragraphs in the posted thread. -Tom
The ban will remain for more than a year, until Feb. 28, 2022, and is an extension of an already existing prohibition on cruise ship visits that has been in effect since the coronavirus pandemic began.
the Carnival Corp. statement said. “This extension, if not amended as pandemic conditions improve, or through action by U.S. authorities, would require our brands to cancel our Alaska (West Coast) and Canada/New England (East Coast) cruise vacation seasons this year.”
Noting that Alaska cruises have historically accounted for an important portion of cruise line revenue in the summer, Scholes said the ban would increase the likelihood that the big, publicly traded cruise companies such as Carnival Corp. and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings would have to raise more capital from Wall Street to stay afloat.
Why can’t they just sail outside of the 12 mile limit for Canada?
Why can’t they just sail outside of the 12 mile limit for Canada?
Either add a day to Lavrentiya (which has no cruise-enabled port but whatever) or arrange to have a friendly country lease an 'embassy' and deep-water dock right at the waterline in Nome or Juneau or even the Homer spit.
The Jones Act strikes again!
Victoria and Vancouver will get hit hard. Too bad, from a visit to Expo ‘86 to our last stop in Canada, Victoria.
I guess it’s some comfort that we know the eagles and flowers will be there next trip, whenever that is,, probably late summer 2022 at this rate.
Not so for many of those who work the shops and businesses of Skagway, Haines and Ketchikan to name a few of our favorite ports.
I’d ban all mainland Xhinese from cruising there in 2022 and maybe beyond. We see what some in China really seek to spread and it ain’t good chi.
From its *waters*????? From its ports...maybe,but what harm can come from a ship sailing from Seattle to Anchorage without a stop in Canada? Absolutely disgusting!
It would just be way to simple and reasonable to grant at least a temporary exception to the stupid Maritime laws of the US. The giverment might actually have to do something useful and constructive for a change. I’m sure if they did the whole system would simply explode.
A lot of cowards in Canada. Sad. Pathetic.