Posted on 03/26/2021 11:56:34 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday urged federal regulators to help pave the way for a return to cruising in the United States — or else the state will consider legal action to force the matter.
DeSantis made his comments at Port Canaveral's Cruise Terminal 3, during a roundtable discussion focusing on the plight of the cruise industry in Florida and nationwide.
The vast, $155 million terminal that served as the venue for the event was completed last summer, but remains unused because of the cruise industry shutdown since March 2020 caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
DeSantis was joined at the forum by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Kevin Thibault and Port Canaveral Chief Executive Officer John Murray, as well as top officials of five leading cruise lines.
Major cruise lines have not sailed out of U.S. ports since March 2020 because of the pandemic, which triggered a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no-sail order. Cruise lines are working on restart plans that will meet the CDC's extensive "framework for conditional sailing" announced in October that replaced the no-sail order.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
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Murray said Port Canaveral itself has lost $87.6 million in cruise-related revenue from March 2020 through February 2021. Additionally, it has reduced its staff by 43%.
Before the pandemic began, Port Canaveral was the world’s second-busiest cruise port, in terms of passenger counts, behind Miami. The No. 3 cruise port also is in Florida — Fort Lauderdale’s’ Port everglades.
Punishment for backing the wrong guy I suspect.
Good to see the government of Florida finally bringing light to this fiasco. They need to push back harder. If court is the next step so be it.
Biggest cruise states in the US are FL, AK, TX. All run by GOP huh isn’t that interesting ...
(As always thank you for keeping us updated on cruise related news, Capt Tom)
Ummm... what’s stopping the cruise lines from operations? I thought their moratoria were self-imposed?
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i suspect the extensive regulations for conditional sailing are not financially viable for the cruiselines
Tom here-good link post for this thread.
Unfortunately the Cruise supporters are still preaching to the choir.
IMHO many months ago the Cruise Lines and their political supporters should have made some legal and geographic moves.
The Politicians and the Cruise Lines are forced into doing something now. The problem is very obvious now. -Tom
“Unfortunately the Cruise supporters are still preaching to the choir.”
Well I am one of them. Can’t wait for cruising to start back up. Would do the thing of flying to Cartagena, etc. if I have to. This pandemic has not affected my income, much less than 10%, but all of the cruise departure ports I have been in have had a lot of seemed like to me semi retired 55-60+ years olds making a part time income 4-5 days a week at most. I feel for them.
The idiot let it go on this long, why the rush now?
The cruise lines have spent their billions of dollars they earned in profits, and are now running on borrowed billions.
The creditors want to get their money back but the Cruise lines have no extra income at this time. And more delays are coming per our CDC.
They have to get cruises started right now , not more delays into the future.
IMHO As far as the politicians who will help out the Cruise Lines, they will be mostly Republicans who have a long history of correctly identifying problems but not solving them. -Tom
Good. Time to steal a page from Democrats’ playbook.
The cruise lines have spent their billions of dollars they earned in profits, and are now running on borrowed billions.
The creditors want to get their money back but the Cruise lines have no extra income at this time. And more delays are coming per our CDC.
They have to get cruises started right now , not more delays into the future.
IMHO As far as the politicians who will help out the Cruise Lines, they will be mostly Republicans who have a long history of correctly identifying problems but not solving them. -Tom
Simple answer.l Fill the boats with illegals as the guberment is paying $396 a night for the illegals motel rooms.
Then more them in the Bermuda Triangle.
The CDC setting the Cruise Lines up. If the lines defy them and there is one outbreak the lawyers will pounce and finish them off.
You got it figured out correctly. If cruise lines defy CDC, lawyers will be salivating like a rabid dog.
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