Vercruz is also making noise as a homeport. It has a bigger port.
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
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.