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SINGAPORE, 27 July 2021: To
kick off their return to service in the US, Princess Cruises and Holland
America Line held a celebration at the Port of Seattle on 23 July.
Princess Cruises president
Jan Swartz and Holland America Line president Gus Antorcha spoke about the
positive multidimensional impact the resumption of cruising means to Seattle,
the local community and Alaska.
Holland America Line kicked
off its Alaska season with Nieuw Amsterdam sailing 24 July, and Princess
Cruises followed with Majestic Princess sailing
25 July.
Each line will operate 10
cruises sailing out of Seattle through September. This marks the return to
cruising and Alaska for both lines, combined with more than 125 years of
It was not an isolated incident, and Canadian officials soon banned cruise ships amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A year and a half later, cruise lines are plotting their comeback, with some companies already setting sail but a lot has changed.
Here’s a step-by-step guide on the cruise ship industry s return and what Canadians need to know.
The cruise ship industry in Canada:
Canada’s $4-billion cruise ship industry is a key part of the country’s domestic tourism sector. It employs roughly 30,000 people, both directly and indirectly, and brings about two million travellers to Canada a year. In 2019, more than 140 cruise ships stopped at a Canadian port. The Conference Board of Canada said in a 2018 report that about 958,930 Canadians were expected to take a cruise that year, a number that grew an average of 4.2 per cent a year between 2010 and 2017.
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Last week, the
11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a lower court judge s order thus retaining the CDC s authority for a
Conditional Sailing Order (COS)
U.S. federal government/CDC and the
State of Florida, the drama continued last Friday.
As Florida readied an emergency petition to the
U.S. Supreme Court about the stay, the appeals court reversed its position on that stay. The result? The COS protocols became guidance for cruise lines sailing from Florida ports, not a legal requirement. That said, the court case itself continues.
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