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Port Canaveral says cruise pause could last until July
One of the busiest cruise ports in the world doesn’t expect to welcome cruise ships until the second half of 2021 at least.
Port Canaveral reckons it could be July before commercial cruises resume.
The port made its forecast as it projects a loss of more than $40 million in the fiscal year ending on 30 September 30.
The port is a homeporting base for Carnival Cruise Line, Disney Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, and MSC Cruises.
"I don’t think that anything is definite right now. The only thing that we can do is do our own individual parts to try and control the pandemic," Captain John Murray, Port Canaveral CEO said during a port authority meeting to approve a new budget.
"Masks, social distancing, everything that they have advised we have tried to embrace here at the port for one reason: that those are the same guys that are going to get our cruise business back online."
Cruise lines have to comply with the CDC’s Conditional Sailing Order but they say the CDC hasn’t updated them on the next steps to complete compliancy, which is effectively leaving them in limbo.
This includes conducting test cruises and then getting certified.
Written by Ray Montgomery, US Editor
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