The cruise lines are putting out tentative restart dates.First Carnival.
Carnival, the world’s largest cruise operator, said it plans to resume North American sailings on a limited basis starting Aug. 1. The CDC’s current no-sail order runs through July 24.
www.barrons.com
Will a Princess ship be let back into Japan or Australia?
Silversea is also starting to plan for a restart and it appears better thought out.This from a letter written to a Cruise Critic poster by the US MD of Silversea.
“hoping to resume operations in July but for us or any cruise line to begin again we need the following:
* Countries need to
allow cross boarder travel,
*
Airlines need to be flying to get guests to the destinations where or cruises operate,
*
We need to have a test process in place which helps identify infected guests in order to keep them off the ships.”
“We have a couple of options we are considering and are trying to source them.
1st we are
considering sending a test kit to guests with their documents where they would test themselves the day of departure and if positive not travel.
2nd we would
test them again at either a pre-cruise hotel or at the pier prior to boarding and if positive they would not be allowed to board.
“To do either we need an easy and reliable testing kit that
gives immediate results like the test for pregnancy, iron content and diabetes.
If we can get the testing correctly done we can begin to operate due to the limited number of guests we carry and the spaciousness of our ships.”
So need to do 2 Covid tests before being allowed on board.
Their parent Royal carribean is now repatriating crew.A massive undertaking.
Royal Caribbean is preparing a major plan for the repatriation of thousands of its crew members back to their home countries. In a letter sent to the crew signed by Michael Bayley - President and CEO of Royal Caribbean International, the company announced the repatriation of the crew from 60...
crew-center.com