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The Alaska cruise season will likely not happen this year. The Canadian government has banned cruise ships from Canadian ports until 1 July. Legally, the foreig
by pbourke 7y ago
The Alaska cruise season will likely not happen this year. The Canadian government has banned cruise ships from Canadian ports until 1 July. Legally, the foreign-flagged ships of major cruise lines must call at a foreign port between calls at US ports. All Alaska cruises call at Vancouver on their way from Seattle to Alaska.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/canada-suspends-cruise-ship-tourism-which-could-shut-down-seattle-to-alaska-cruise-season-until-july/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/canada-suspends-cr...
- na85 7y agoMaybe they'll sail under the US flag?
- bgorman 7y agoCould they go to Russia?
- iso947 7y agoWho do you think will be on the death boats?
- diebeforei485 7y agoThen they'd have to pay U.S. wages and working conditions. Avoiding that is the whole reason they are foreign flagged.
- na85 7y agoI know. That'd be a great ancillary upside to this pandemic.
- CydeWeys 7y agoMore generally, just US laws period. That affects a lot more than just worker compensation and conditions.
- lonelappde 7y agoCruise ships were the a primordial Uber -- regulatory arbitrage to compete in an existing industry. The put a hotel on water just to avoid hotel regulations.
- huy-nguyen 7y agoRelevant video. https://youtu.be/m3yyA12PAy0 https://youtu.be/m3yyA12PAy0
- netsharc 7y agoI'm not mourning this. They're floating luxury hotels spewing 10x more sulphur oxide than all of Europe's 260 million cars. Ironically this economic shutdown is probably what needs to be done to save the planet. Funny how humans react when their death might come in 2 weeks and not in 20 years.
- bkor 7y agoSeems the source of your "10x" statement is the following report: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/report-cruise-ships-emitted-more-sox-than-europe-s-cars-in-2017 https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/report-cruise-shi... That's a report released in 2019, but the subject is 2017 emissions. Since Jan 1 2020 all vessels are restricted to low sulphur fuel. It used to be up to 3.5% worldwide, now you're only allowed 0.50%. Near EU you were already restricted, seems that was up to 1.5% Unfortunately, reading the article does point to some bad actions: One cruise company seems to be installing scrubbers. They basically take the SOx out of the exhaust (and then dump it somewhere). This is still really bad for the environment, though it makes it appear you abide by the IMO regulations. In any case, SOx emissions should be drastically slower since 2020. Also, further reductions should be possible. This as 0.50 SOx fuel didn't really exist; initially the plan was to mix 3.5% and 0.10% to get to 0.50%. Ideally the IMO now restricts everyone to 0.10% as it'll probably take 10 years again before anything like that takes effect.
- PeterisP 7y agoArbitrary legal restrictions can be changed, especially if unusual circumstances require some changes.