12-10-2007, 10:00 AM
Carey -
The big difference if this proposed rule goes through, is that will require foreign-flagged ships to spend at least 48 hours in a foreign port when sailing U.S. routes and that the port time in those foreign destinations be at least 50 percent of the total port time of the itinerary.
This 50 percent of total port time would not make it feasible.
The 48 hours thing also tighten things down. Before the cruise ships would just stop over at Fanning Island. Now they have to stay for 2 days!
They would have to do "7 days in Hawaii as well as 7 days somewhere else"
And cruise ships aren't going to advertise a "14 day trip with only 7 of those days in Hawaii and 7 of those days in the Fanning Islands"
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Coming home soon!
Edited by - damon on 12/10/2007 14:42:19
The big difference if this proposed rule goes through, is that will require foreign-flagged ships to spend at least 48 hours in a foreign port when sailing U.S. routes and that the port time in those foreign destinations be at least 50 percent of the total port time of the itinerary.
This 50 percent of total port time would not make it feasible.
The 48 hours thing also tighten things down. Before the cruise ships would just stop over at Fanning Island. Now they have to stay for 2 days!
They would have to do "7 days in Hawaii as well as 7 days somewhere else"
And cruise ships aren't going to advertise a "14 day trip with only 7 of those days in Hawaii and 7 of those days in the Fanning Islands"
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Coming home soon!
Edited by - damon on 12/10/2007 14:42:19