In a letter to cruise industry leaders Wednesday, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention signaled that U.S. sailing operations may resume as soon as mid-July.
Local cruise lines with port destinations in the states, including Princess Cruises headquartered in Santa Clarita and Viking Cruises, headquartered in Woodland Hills, have been non-operational since the pandemic struck last year. Industry leaders have argued the CDC has placed unfair restrictions on their operations with the Conditional Sail Order, or CSO, initially implemented in October.
“We acknowledge that cruising will never be a zero-risk activity and that the goal of the CSO’s phased approach is to resume passenger operations in a way that mitigates the risk of Covid-19 transmission onboard cruise ships and across port communities,” CDC representative Aimee Treffiletti, head of the Covid-19 global migration task force maritime unit, wrote in the letter to industry leaders.
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Shares of cruise lines including Royal Carribean were trading higher on Thursday after the Centers for Disease Control said Americans could relax and party on the high seas again as soon as this July – if they are fully vaccinated.
Cruising from U.S. ports could restart in mid-summer in American waters, the CDC said late Wednesday in a letter to the cruise industry obtained by USA Today.
“We acknowledge that cruising will never be a zero-risk activity and that the goal of the (Conditional Sailing Order)’s phased approach is to resume passenger operations in a way that mitigates the risk of COVID-19 transmission onboard cruise ships and across port communities,” Aimee Treffiletti, head of the Maritime Unit for CDC’s COVID-19 response within its Global Mitigation Task Force for COVID-19, said in the letter.
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A Bill that could have allowed the resumption of cruise vacations by July 4, 2021, was blocked in the US Upper House by Washington Senator Patty Murray eight days after its introduction, Cruise Industry News reported earlier this week.
Named the CRUISE (Careful Resumption Under Improved Safety Enhancements) Act, it was aimed to revoke the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) current Conditional Sail Order on cruises and require the CDC to provide COVID-19 mitigation guidance for cruise lines to resume safe domestic operations, the cruise shipping industry publication reported.
The Bill, the publication said, was initiated by Florida senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio and Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska.
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