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Major cruise ship company may avoid Florida if state doesn’t permit COVID-19 vaccination checks
A view of the Norwegian Encore cruise ship during its inaugural sailing from PortMiami, which took place from Nov. 21-24, 2019. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
by: By Mallika Kallingal and Andy Rose, CNN
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May 7, 2021 / 12:02 PM EST
(CNN) Florida’s new law prohibiting businesses from asking whether employees or customers have been vaccinated against Covid-19 may take a toll on its cruise business.
The CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. said Thursday it could cause the company to suspend Florida departures and move its ships elsewhere.
DeSantis ban on vaccine proof may send one company s cruise ships out of Florida Taylor Dolven, The Miami Herald
May 7 If Florida won t allow Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for passengers and crew, the company s CEO says it will take its ships elsewhere.
CEO Frank Del Rio made the threat during an earnings call Thursday, just days after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill passed by the Republican-controlled state Legislature that bans businesses, schools and government entities in Florida from asking anyone to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is the world s third largest cruise company, parent to cruise brands Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas. Miami-Dade County spent $263 million building a terminal for Norwegian at PortMiami that finished construction last year.
Cruise giant Norwegian threatens to skip Florida’s ports
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With its home ports of Shanghai and Tianjin (Beijing), Norwegian Cruise Line s new Norwegian Joy will cater to Chinese travelers beginning in the summer of 2017. (Norwegian Cruise Line via CNN)
Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is threatening to keep its ships out of Florida after the governor signed legislation banning businesses from requiring that customers show proof of vaccination against COVID-19.
The company says the law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis is at odds with guidelines from federal health authorities that would let cruise ships sail in U.S. waters if nearly all passengers and crew members are vaccinated.
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More and more details are emerging about the new CDC regulations released this week. While the restrictions already seem incredibly restrictive towards cruises without a vaccination mandate, the CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings revealed the company believes the restrictions apply to all cruises, which would make cruising in July a remote and unlikely prospect.
After Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings
released their first-quarter earnings report on Thursday, CEO and President of the Company, Frank Del Rio,
phase 2B and 3 absurd. He believes the CDC is singling out the cruise industry in what can only be called a crusade against cruising.