Posted on 03/03/2021 3:38:25 PM PST by Capt. Tom
If they do homeport some of their fleet in Cozumel, Mex. I would expect MSC Lines to also get a homeport there.
Royal has been strung along for a year with our indifferent CDC rules and regs. (and so have we)
I wonder if some of the creditors who loaned ROYAL Billions of dollars might have had some input into this ploy. -Tom
I wonder if working on a cruise ship these days would be a good job or a bad job?
I hope not. That’s the only place in Mexico I visit. I have several friends and will spend weeks at a time. Everyone hides when a ship comes in then it’s all back to normal when they leave.
Vercruz is also making noise as a homeport. It has a bigger port.
I fear that cruising is over forever. Air travel and cruising always have been targets for the left’s climate crap. Now that the Green New Deal seems to be a thing, the future of travel seems to be grim.
According to the crew I have talked to it is a good job. Look up Chris Tang on youtube. He is a British guy that works on a ship and explains it pretty well
I will. Best to you!
Correction it is Cris Won’t, not Tang
Ripley Tench is an A meican who post up some video logs about working on a cruise ship.
I am sure other places outside USA will offer homeports to different cruise lines.
The Cruise lines like ROYAL-CARNIVAL-NORWEGIAN, make about 40% of their revenue from cruises originating from American ports.
But they are all billions in debt now, and must have an income stream.
Our CDC only toys with them as the Lines are forced to borrow more money to stay afloat, as the delays continue.-Tom
Exactly, all the prices go up when the cruise ships arrive, and then fall back when they leave, among other annoyances.
I wonder how they expect the passengers to arrive? Cozumel airport really isn’t that large. A better option would be to bring them down to Playa by bus from Cancun.
Direct (non-stop) flights to Cozumel (CZM ...
https://www.flightconnections.com/flights-to-cozumel-czm
United States is well-connected to Cozumel (CZM) with 10 airports around the country that have direct flights to the airport.
Most cruise lines pay little in American taxes; they hire mostly foreign crews; they build their ships abroad. So how do they bring in foreign investment? So how do they MAGA?
They would pay docking fees, they need supplies, food fuel for the ships,etc,
They would help out nearby American hotels American travel agents, and American workers who work ashore for the lines, and local American shuttle services, dockworkers and our airlines.
Undoubtable more, but that is my quick take.-Tom
The CDC is out to destroy America’s economy...
With RC goes American jobs, money from the passengers for airlines, hotels, restaurants, gas stations etc
Cozumel ???
I totally dislike Cozumel...
I prefer the Eastern part of the Caribbean...
Ships for our Navy are built right here in the US...including aircraft carriers ,,,,why cant we build cruise ships too ???
I managed a fairly big IT team for Royal/celeb.
I got to go on “work cruises” a couple of times per year while I had my teams doing installs or upgrades.
The quality of life on a ship depends on a lot of factors. There is a definite caste system, based on job function - which also happens to coincide with nationality.
Regardless of your job, your sleeping quarters suck. But, the crew bar is super cheap.
If you are young and want to party - work as a show/dancer, shore excursion or casino staff member. I would add the kid club staff to that. They are a little off, but fun good people.
But it is an extension of college life in a lot of ways. Groundhog Day: work hard, party hard. The money stinks.
Cruising is big business and tens of thousands of US jobs are at stake. Support staff hundreds of small US businesses depend on them.
Actually about 180,000 direct jobs. Not including preriferal jobs like restaurants, shops and hotel jobs. It's significant. And they build their ships overseas because cruise ships aren't built in the US. Probably cost issues there, along with the fact that experienced shipyards are all overseas. Not to suggest a US shipyard couldn't build one, they build military and cargo vessels for the domestic market, but the talent isn't here. And century old laws prevent the market from developing.
Would make sense. I’ve been on cruises which dock at commercial ports. You don’t have the commercial sites onsite, but that’s not an issue with shuttles to the center of towns. It would be necessary to build large embarkation/disembarkation buildings, but that’s doable. And local commercial facilities would follow. Direct flights would be a problem many places, but I suspect one that would quickly be remedied with 2,000 to 5,000 potential airline customers per ship.
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