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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruising tips for travelers I want to
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talk about a series of really big and
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significant setbacks that are getting in
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the way of cruising starting up again
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any time soon one of the biggest changes
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that have happened is clear the cruise
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line Association have announced that all
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members of clear have now voluntarily
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suspended all cruising and to at least
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the 15th of September this particularly
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affects all cruisers in and out of the
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United States the CDC in the United
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States had a no sell order which was due
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to expire at the end of July
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however there's big expectations that
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that was going to be renewed
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so certainly clear I'll getting on to
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the front foot and setting a new date
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feels a lot like they're expecting this
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date to be pushed back even further so
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for example they said the following we
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will continually evaluate the evolving
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situation and make a determination as to
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whether a further extension is necessary
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they do talk about hopefully using this
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time in September to engage with the CDC
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the Center for Disease Control and
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certainly one of the big challenges and
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things that were seen getting in the way
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of cruising starting up again is lack of
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engagement with the CDC there have been
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certainly publicly only one key meeting
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between the cruise lines and the CDC and
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sort of a formal meeting and that was
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still to discuss crew repatriation rules
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I'm sure the stuff going behind the
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scenes but we are not seeing major
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engagement we've seen a number of
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senators we've seen a number of travel
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associations writing letters sort of
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public letters encouraging the CDC to
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engage so certainly a big setback we're
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seeing is that cruises have been pushed
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back to the 15th of September and
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certainly lots of noise in the system
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about lack of engagement in getting
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another key setback in terms of getting
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cruising up and running again anytime
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soon is country bands the most
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significant of these happened in recent
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days where Spain as they announced
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lifting of travel and opening their
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borders to land-based travelers they
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made it clear that they were extending
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the ban on cruise ships calling at
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Spanish ports indefinitely and there's
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no date for that to be renewed this is
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really really significant
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as you look at Europe and the
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Mediterranean Spanish ports get around
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10 million passengers going through them
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places like Barcelona which is a really
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really significant and important
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invocation disembarkation port they can
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have up to 5 million of those passengers
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passing through so Spain closing its
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borders closing its ports to cruise
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ships is a really big deal what's also a
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big deal is they also refer to guidance
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from the European equivalent of the CDC
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in the US which does talk about the
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ongoing risk that cruise ships pose
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where people are in confined spaces for
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extended period of time
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so certainly we're seeing ports not
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opening yet anytime soon to cruise ships
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and this is a big issue
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we're already seen of course Canada have
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closed their borders to cruise ships
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right through to the middle of October
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we're seeing Australia have closed for
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ships until September 2020 but we
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they've also been talking about allowing
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you know international travelers or
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whether they also push that back seems
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fairly to me certain we've seen places
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as far afield as Seychelles also closing
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for cruise ships until 2022 so certainly
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we're not seeing lots of ports and
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countries yet open your cruise ships and
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those announcements from Spain certainly
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were a big setback to that whole process
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the next area where I think we're seeing
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some setbacks is we're seeing that
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cruise lines are actively disposing of
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ships and also looks like potentially
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closing down some of their brands so
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let's explore some of those issues in
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the last week that I was recording this
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Carnival have already announced the
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disposal of six of their ships and
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that's Carnival Corporation so we don't
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know yet which of their various brands
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it's coming from it their all carnival
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ships or 100 American ships or princess
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ships or whatever we don't yet know what
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those ships are Arnold Donald the CEO
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also made it clear that they're looking
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to accelerate their plans to get rid of
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ships so we're going to see more ships
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going from the Carnival Corporation we
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haven't heard from the other cruise
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lines if they have any plans to do that
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we've seen one big sign though with
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Pullman tour which is a joint venture
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between Royal Caribbean and some Spanish
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based travel companies and what we've
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seen is those ships currently are
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actually two of the ships are in Naples
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one of them is two lumen Ella repair
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trading crew but we've seen reports
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from where his crew center sites that
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those ships are being stripped back lots
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of stuffs being taken off the ship also
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if you take a look on a site that sells
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big yachts and big ships to ships which
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look surprisingly like the Pullman Tour
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monarch and the Pullman Tour horizon
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appear to be for sale so it certainly
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looks like we may be seeing some
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disposals of ships and disposals of
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smaller brands the other thing that's
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really important to that is all the
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cruise lines have also made it clear
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that when they start up it's like to be
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a slow phased process with a slowly
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bring on ships probably focusing a lot
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on big home ports and much more to the
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drive to port market so certainly we see
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a contraction and removal of ships from
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the fleet's which also suggests if
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cruising does start it may start in a
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much slower and much more staggered way
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than many people would hope another
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setback in terms of cruising getting up
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and running again was in the United
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States where we saw one of the river
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cruise lines that were planning to start
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up with their river cruising cancelling
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and pulling all the sailings at quite
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short notice because of a resurgence of
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Cova 19 cases in the territories and the
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states that they were planning to sell
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in so that was up in the Pacific
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Northwest so we certainly saw that
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cruise line pulling back because of the
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surgeons in cases as countries come out
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of lockdown we're seeing some increases
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in cases we think something creases and
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what's called the are the the rate that
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it's passed on if we're seeing as
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ease that rate increasing this science
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had already some countries potentially
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and certainly some cruise lines are
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having to pull back on opening up and
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starting up cruises again whilst it
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looks like a big mainstream cruising has
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had a number of setbacks on a positive
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note we are seeing some small pockets of
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cruising starting we saw in Norway
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Hurtigruten and C dream running cruises
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already for Norwegian passengers only
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two Norwegian ports we've seen some
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limited river cruising starting up with
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a Rosa in the doís row Nikko cruises on
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the Rhine for German passengers we've
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also seen porn art do a pre sell as they
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work to get approval from the French
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government to sell out of French ports
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to French port oniy for
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French citizens they haven't got final
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sign-off on it but they have put those
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cruises on pre-cell so there must be
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relatively confident an uncrewed which
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doesn't fall under the cdc rules because
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it's less than 250 passengers have
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announced that they will start sailing
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in Alaska in August with a whole set of
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protocols around supplying pretest
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showing that your negative various
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protocols like that there have been over
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recent days some relatively big setbacks
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in cruising getting up and running any
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time soon in 2020 I'll keep you posted
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as we learn more but I have loads more
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videos of updates tips and advice about
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cruising so why don't you watch another
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one of those right now
