{"id":14961,"date":"2020-08-05T19:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/industry-extends-u-s-cruise-suspension-to-october-31\/14961\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T19:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:49:44","slug":"industry-extends-u-s-cruise-suspension-to-october-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/industry-extends-u-s-cruise-suspension-to-october-31\/14961\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Extends U.S. Cruise Suspension to October 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Aug 5 (Reuters) \u2013 U.S. cruise operators have agreed to voluntarily suspend ocean voyages until at least Oct. 31, an industry body said on Wednesday, as new COVID-19 infections continue to surge in the country.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Cruise Lines International Association said its members, which include the three biggest U.S. cruise operators Carnival Corp, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd and Royal Caribbean Group, would revisit a possible further extension on or before Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a no-sail order for all cruise ships through next month\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The cruise industry has been among the worst hit by the pandemic, with ships in Japan, Australia and California making headlines for the spread coronavirus cases onboard.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Norway stopped all cruise ships with more than 100 people on board from disembarking at its ports after an outbreak of COVID-19 was reported on a ship, operated by Norwegian company Hurtigruten, that had already disembarked at the port of Tromsoe. (Reporting by Mehr Bedi in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2020.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 5 (Reuters) \u2013 U.S. cruise operators have agreed to voluntarily suspend ocean voyages until at least Oct. 31, an industry body said on Wednesday, as new COVID-19 infections continue to surge in the country. The Cruise Lines International Association said its members, which include the three biggest U.S. cruise operators Carnival Corp, Norwegian Cruise &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1153,2257,1277,3420,3315],"class_list":["post-14961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-cruise","tag-extends","tag-industry","tag-october","tag-suspension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/13033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}