Several cruise lines will begin operations outside the U.S. Photo Credit: mariakray/Shutterstock.com
Several cruise lines have plans to launch their ships from foreign ports on cruises that will be open to North American passengers.
Large-ship cruising is still mostly banned in U.S. waters, due to the CDC s conditional sailing order. But one ship, the Celebrity Edge, has been approved to sail from Florida on June 26, and others are planning cruises to Alaska in July.
The following lines are currently scheduled to launch cruises open to either vaccinated adults or to vaccinated passengers entirely.
This list excludes sailings that are only open to residents of the country where the ship is homeported, such as in England, where many cruise lines are offering sailings for U.K. residents; Royal Caribbean ship in Singapore; and cruises for Europeans by MSC Cruises, Costa Cruises, Tui Cruises, Aida Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd.
Silversea Cruises is to resume cruises in Alaska and Iceland from July.
The luxury line, which has previously announced restarts in Greece and the Galapagos Islands from June, will start Alaska sailings from Seattle on July 29.
The move follows US legislation which enables cruises to operate in Alaska without a required call in Canada, which currently prohibits cruise travel.
The Alaska itineraries will be operated by Silver Muse (pictured), with Silver Shadow starting the first of three 10-day Icelandic circumnavigation cruises from Reykjavik on July 30.
Roberto Martinoli, Silversea president and chief executive, said: “We proudly continue to lead the ultra-luxury cruise industry’s healthy return to service and commend the leadership of Alaska and Iceland for taking steps to advance the safe resumption of global travel.