Some of the world’s biggest cruise lines in recent days have finally begun announcing concrete plans to restart sailings out of U.S. ports. Celebrity Cruises, for instance, on Wednesday said it would resume cruises out of Fort Lauderdale on June 26. And the world’s largest cruise line, Royal Caribbean, said on Friday that it would …
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But voyages through the Northwest Passage are still on hold.
ByYereth Rosen
A cruise ship sails in a fjord in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park. (Scott Gende / National Park Service)
Federal legislation has cleared the way for the resumption of cruise travel in Alaska this year though not at the record-breaking level that had been expected prior to the pandemic.
President Biden on Monday signed a bill sponsored by the Alaska Congressional delegation, the Alaska Tourism Restoration Act, that gives large passenger vessels a temporary exemption from the requirement that foreign-flagged ships to make stopovers in Canada. The Canadian government has halted voyages by large passenger ships until 2022, erecting an impediment for the large cruise ships that typically sail north to Alaska in the summer. (It also extended a ban pleasure craft from Canadian Arctic waters through 2022.)
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Many travelers dream of coming to Alaska. After all it s bigger than life, teeming with fish and wildlife, punctuated by heavenly peaks and home to more than 50 percent of the nation s national parks.
This summer…and this summer only, a vacation to Alaska can be a dream-come-true. Alaska has more room for travelers right now since more than one million (1,000,000) cruise passengers won t be coming. That means more room in the national parks, on the Alaska Railroad and at your favorite fishing spot.