30 cruise ships head to US ports this week

[left-of-center2012]

At least 30 cruise ships at sea list port destinations in the USA this week, according to a USA TODAY satellite tracking analysis of 380 of the world’s largest cruise ships. Data from real-time vessel monitoring systems was merged with passenger and crew capacities to produce the snapshot.

That means upward of 100,000 people – 70% of them passengers – could look to come ashore at a range of U.S. ports, based on the average capacity of the ships from cruisemapper.com. Since this is prime Caribbean cruising season, more than a dozen of those 30 ships are bound for the Florida cities of Key West, Cape Canaveral, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. None of the ships at sea has reported passengers with symptoms of the coronavirus, or COVID-19.

The world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas, left Miami last weekend for a Caribbean cruise and is scheduled to head back there Saturday with a staggering capacity of 5,000 passengers and 2,300 crew.

Experts say there is palpable concern as the $45 billion cruise industry powers ahead despite advisories from the State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that discourage cruise travel, as well as long airplane journeys.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/11/coronavirus-cruise-ships-us-ports-entry/5015856002/

[GP6971]

1. The link below

shows the location of all the cruise ships.

https://www.cruisemapper.com/

[Mike 03]

2. This is like one of those Roland Emmerich disaster movies where

you think it can't possibly get any worse and it does get a hundred times worse and it's only ten minutes into the movie.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Except for the arrival of the Grand Princess on Monday, haven't heard much from other cruise lines

Have they stepped up precautions and are safer than being on land now?

[brush]

4. God, this is just getting worse. All will have to be tested and or quarantined.

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. Except I doubt Trump has the resources ready

or coordinated. So, they will sit at sea while things continue to deteriorate, or they will just let them come ashore untested and unquarantined.

[Dem2theMax]

5. I have friends who are arriving home today from a Panama Canal cruise.

They left for the trip just as news of the coronavirus was really hitting. They were somewhat concerned, but took off on the trip anyway.

I'll be getting in touch with them once they've had a chance to get home and catch up on things. Will post anything I learn.

Two other friends were supposed to leave on Saturday for a cruise to Mexico. They canceled.

[mshasta]

6. so they think they are healthy

. "None of the ships at sea has reported passengers with symptoms of the coronavirus, or COVID-19."

well not test, how do they know ?

they mention only passengers what cooks, cleaning staff, waiters,

[customerserviceguy]

8. The industry

will be severely impacted by the crisis. There's no way I'd get onto a potential prison ship, and I have a feeling a lot more people are thinking that way.

[pwb]

9. They spread this shit around the world.

So lets bail them out? right? Golf courses are probably suffering too.