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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dmwnc1959: [QB] [b]Mr. Norman[/b], back in late April the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and the US State Department both issued proclomations stating that all unnecessary travel to Mexico should be avoided. Every cruise line took this quite seriously and cancelled nearly every single port call visit on every ship on both the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico sides of Mexico, in some cases as long as 6 weeks worth of itineraries. This was quite devastating to the local economy of these ports losing tens of thousands of passengers in these six weeks on dozens of ships. For instance in one case the [i]Carnival Splendor[/i], which carries upwards of 3000+ passengers, diverted for 6 weeks taking away 18,000 passengers worth of possible revenue from Mexican ports. And that's just one ship, on one side of Mexico. However most, if not all, still included at least one foreign visit to either Canada or another Caribbean/Gulf non-US port. On the Pacific side, Royal Caribbean's [i]Mariner of the Seas[/i] visited SF, Seattle, and Victoria BC. The new [i]Carnival Splendor[/i] visited San Francisco, Victoria and Vancouver BC. Princess Cruises, Celebrity Cruises, and Holland-America also re-routed ships cancelling their Mexican Riviera ports of call extending port visits in San Diego and other ports into overnight stays, or adding ports further south in Central America. These were mainly westbound repositioning cruises that were coming up from Panama Canal transits. A lot of people in the cruise industry always wondered what would happen if something like this occurred. It appears that this test quickly allowed cruise lines to divert Mexican Riviera ships northward and still maintain the Jones Act. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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