Carnival Cruise Line said on Wednesday that it will suspend cruise activities from Port Canaveral and other ports in the United States until March because its purpose is to meet the requirements of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to restart cruises.
Since March 2020, Port Canaveral has not been sailing for many days because the coronavirus pandemic triggered the CDC’s no sail order. The additional cancellations were made by the cruise line in accordance with the restart plan, which will meet the “Conditional Navigation Framework” announced by the CDC in October to replace the Sailing Order.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Christine Duffy, President of Carnival Cruise Line, said: “We are sorry to disappoint our guests because it is obvious from the booking activity that the demand for Carnival Cruise Lines has been suppressed. We Thank them for their patience and patience. Support, because we will continue to work hard in a step-by-step, step-by-step approach to resume operations in 2021.”
Carnival said that customers who have cancelled their bookings will receive the cancellation notice directly, as well as their future cruise credit and on-board credit packages or full refund options.
Carnival also announced a series of other cancellation plans, which will cancel five of its ships later in 2021. These cancellations include the Carnival Liberty sailing from Port Canaveral from September 17th to October 18th, which will arrange for rescheduled dry dock operations for the ship.
The Carnival Mardi Gras is the latest and largest ship of this cruise ship. It is scheduled to sail from Port Canaveral on April 24 to provide a seven-night cruise in the Caribbean. Before the pandemic, the carnival was originally scheduled to sail from Port Canaveral in October.
Carnival will be the first cruise ship powered by LNG in North America and will be equipped with the first roller coaster BOLT at sea.
The ship will be docked at the new US$155 million cruise terminal 3 in Port Canaveral. This is an 188,000-square-foot terminal that has been fully operational in June but has not yet received cruise passengers.
In addition, Princess Cruises, which did not sail from Port Canaveral, announced that it will cancel all cruise trips from U.S. ports until May 14.
The princess was affected by the pandemic very early. Due to the coronavirus infection, its two ships-Diamond Princess and Grand Princess-were the first to isolate passengers.
Data from Johns Hopkins shows that the reason for the cancellation of registration is that the number of COVID-19 cases has reached 21 million on Tuesday night, and since the report Only four days have passed since 20 million cases. Georgia became the fifth state to report this more contagious strain. The strain was first discovered in the United Kingdom and appeared alongside California, Colorado, Florida and New York.