Tagged: Alaska

The City of Wrangell does not want cruise ships to dock in town until it knows how the industry plans to prevent potentially bringing COVID-19 into the community. The Southeast Alaska city is coordinating with a regional effort seeking assurances from operators of small cruise ships seeking to sail this summer. (kstk.org)

Southeast Alaska port communities are working on a set of criteria to allow cruising to resume in the region in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. But it’s not clear when or how exactly that will happen. (krbd.org)

It’s quiet on the docks in Ketchikan. In this Southeast Alaska town that depends on cruise ships to make ends meet, that’s worrisome. Patti Mackey is the head of the Ketchikan Visitors Bureau. Any other May, she said, these docks would be abuzz. (npr.org)

A few weeks after reducing their Alaska cruise fleet by 75%, two major cruise lines pulled the plug on the rest of the season in Alaska. (skagwaynews.com)

From Alaska to Washington State and British Columbia in Canada, ports in the Pacific Northwest are facing significant financial challenges as the already-short Alaska cruise season confronts delays and cancellations from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (cruisecritic.co.uk)

Cruise ships are slowly being redeployed to other areas following cancellations of itineraries in Alaska for the 2020 season as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the fate of many cruise ships scheduled to sail to Alaska still hangs in the balance — with many expected to enter some sort of short-term layup scenario — a few cruise lines have begun redeploying these vessels to different regions. (cruisecritic.co.uk)

Despite a federal “no sail” order, Carnival Cruise Line is offering a seven-day sailing through Southeast Alaska in early July. That was news to Skagway Mayor Andrew Cremata, whose small town is virtually shut down in hopes of avoiding a spike in coronavirus cases. (alaskapublic.org)