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Carnival Outlines Ship Restarts For January & February 2022

Carnival Outlines Ship Restarts For January & February 2022

THERESA NORTON | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel   Carnival Cruise Line outlined which ships will resume cruising in January and February as it works toward the return of its full fleet sailing from U.S. homeports in spring 2022. Seventeen ships are scheduled to be operating by year’s end, and Carnival Sunshine will restart from Charleston on Jan. 13 and Carnival Liberty from Port Canaveral on Feb. 11. Carnival’s operations will cover the following homeports and ships by February, and represents 90 percent of Carnival’s U.S.-based capacity: -- Galveston: Carnival Breeze, Carnival Dream and Carnival Vista -- Miami: Carnival Freedom, Carnival…
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Carnival Cruise ship sailed into path of Hurricane Ida

Carnival Cruise ship sailed into path of Hurricane Ida

By Chase Karacostas, Miami Herald Troy Warren for CNT #Travel  Company says ‘it was safe’ to operate vessel as storm churned in Gulf of Mexico Sunbathing in the middle of the ocean during a hurricane? Probably not what passengers expected when booking their Carnival Cruise trip. A Carnival Breeze cruise ship set sail last Thursday from Galveston, Texas, headed across the Gulf of Mexico for Cozumel, Mexico, even as forecasters warned that Hurricane Ida could make landfall as a powerful storm.   “At the time Carnival Breeze departed Galveston, it was determined that it was safe to do so,” Chris Chiames,…
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Carnival loses $2.1 billion waiting for cruising to resume

Carnival loses $2.1 billion waiting for cruising to resume

By The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT MIAMI — Carnival Corp. said it lost more than $2 billion in its latest quarter as the company’s cruise lines remained mostly shut down by the pandemic, but it said bookings for next year are running ahead of 2019′s pace. Shares of the Miami-headquartered company fell 2.5% on Thursday. The cruise industry was a visible early victim in the pandemic, as passengers and crew members tested positive for COVID-19 and some ships were turned away from ports. The industry has battled the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over health requirements for…
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