Nobody knows when cruise ships will sail again from Galveston, but the port has begun planning for a phased resumption 'as early as July, just to be ready,' CEO/Port Director Rodger Rees said.

As expected, members of the House of the Representatives introduced a bill to revoke the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's conditional sailing order and resume safe cruising from the US by July.

Hurtigruten Expeditions' Seattle office launched an Earth Week Sale for Americans, while the Hurtigruten Foundation will donate to support Alaskan wilderness.

Ten days after submitting a plan to resume cruises from the US in July with a full vaccination mandate, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings pressed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for an answer.

American Queen Steamboat Co. and Victory Cruise Lines announced three new additions and one promotion to their sales and revenue management teams.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings donated $100,000 in Visa gift cards to help support the members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416 in Miami who have been significantly impacted by cruising's shutdown.

US Federal Maritime Commissioner Louis Sola has proposed that Port Canaveral be designated as a port where vaccines are made available to the crews of any cargo or cruise ships calling in Florida.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends avoiding all cruise travel, including river cruises, worldwide and issued new guidance for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people who ignore that advice and go anyway.

Two Carnival Cruise Line ships were released from standby off St. Vincent Tuesday, even as Soufrière volcano continued erupting, while a pair of Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises vessels remained in the vicinity.

A bill to revoke the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's conditional sailing order and resume cruising from the US by July 4 was introduced Tuesday by three Republican members of Congress.