July 17, 2020 - The decision of the US health authority CDC is a blow to the cruise line's office. The administrationextended their "No Sail Order" until the end of September 2020. The brands of the Carnival and Royal Caribbean groups are particularly affected by this decision.
Cruise ships in the port Port Everglades
The U.S. reports increasingly dramatic numbers of citizens infected with COVID-19 every day. It is inevitable that the pandemic is assessed as a high risk of virus outbreaks on cruise ships. Until recently, the American industry giants had examined the possibilities of resuming Caribbean cruises from individual American ports. The industry association of cruise companies, the CLIA, originally assumed that cruises would be interrupted until mid-September. Cruises to Alaska, the New England states and Canada have to be canceled.