We in Barbados are desperate to get our economy going again, and who could criticise the Mia Mottley administration for doing all in its power to return some life to our country that is wrestling with four consecutive quarters of double-digit declines.The international cruise sector is champing at the bit to return to the seas after suffering billions of dollars in pandemic losses. And given the major humanitarian role that Barbados played last year, in providing vital air and port access to thousands of cruise passengers and crew, we are expecting the sector will show Barbados some significant goodwill, in return.With 121 million Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and 36 million Britons, receiving at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, we are certainly hedging our bets that we will benefit from that pent up demand for travel and leisure.
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Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings CEO Frank Del Rio and Norwegian Cruise Line executives in the first episode of the Embark series. Cruise ships may be on pause, but cruise lines are not.
Norwegian Cruise Line s Embark docuseries, debuting tomorrow, takes viewers behind the scenes as one of the world s largest cruises lines prepares to return to service after being on a pandemic-induced shutdown for more than a year.
Debuting April 15 at 8 p.m. ET, the first episode in the series, the Great Cruise Comeback shows that getting 17 ships and thousands of crew members up to full steam, especially in an industry as global as cruise, will be no small feat, especially during a global pandemic. It is the first of five episodes that will chronicle the company s return to service.
/PRNewswire/ Norwegian Cruise Line, the innovator in global cruise travel, today launches "EMBARK – The Series," a docuseries chronicling the brand s highly.
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Cruise line stocks have been sailing higher in 2021 on expectations the major lines will hit the open waters again this year. And they earned a boost earlier this month after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued much-anticipated reopening guidelines for travel ship operators.
More recently, though, some of the wind has been taken out of cruise stocks sails.
CDC guidelines have failed to provide a specific reopening date for cruise operators. Concerns that rising debt levels could negatively impact shareholder value are another hurdle.
And cruise line stocks recently took another recent hit after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC suggested halting the use of Johnson & Johnson s (JNJ) single-dose COVID-19 vaccine after six women developed blood clots within two weeks of getting their shots – potentially tapping the brakes on the pace of immunization.