Effective January 15, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has allowed its COVID-era guidelines for cruise lines—the agency’s “Framework for Conditional Sailing Order” (CSO)—to expire. The move came… Read More
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In the United States, inland and nearshore cruising returned to the inland waterways and coastal waters last spring and summer, with blue water cruises returning to some ports late in… Read More
The American Waterways Operators reported in its August 27 newsletter that in a joint conference call with the Coast Guard, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention representatives told maritime industry… Read More
While much of the nation’s economy is back underway, albeit with restrictions due to COVID-19 still in place, one segment still stuck in port is the blue-water cruise industry. Earlier… Read More
In accordance with President Joe Biden’s executive order of January 21 and a subsequent order issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention titled “Requirement for Persons to… Read More
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at first prohibited and then reconsidered and allowed a planned christening cruise for the new passenger vessel American Countess March 21 in… Read More
The vaccine rollout is underway, but the fight ahead is still long. Even as vaccines are being distributed, at least three new variants of the coronavirus (first detected in the… Read More
On October 30, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Framework for Conditional Sailing Order that introduces a phased approach for the safe and responsible resumption of… Read More
