Thousands of stranded cruise workers are finally being allowed to disembark ships in the US after cruise companies agree to strict deals with CDC (NCLH, CCL, RCL)

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• Since Monday, thousands of cruise ship crew members have been approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to disembark in US waters to be repatriated to their home countries.
• The majority of approvals are for crew members on Norwegian Cruise Line and Disney Cruise Line ships, most of whom have been living on ships since mid-March when the CDC issued its No Sail order.
• Tensions between the CDC and cruise lines played out in public last week after the CDC told the Miami Herald that cruise lines did not want to pay the cost of charter flights to get their employees home.
• In a letter to staff Sunday, Royal Caribbean Cruises President and CEO Michael Bayley said that the company was nervous that the CDC regulations stipulated that company executives would be criminally liable if a cruise line's employees did not follow regulations, which prevent the use of most transportation and hotels.
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Thousands of cruise ship workers will soon step on dry land for the first time in months, following agreements between embattled cruise lines and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Since Monday, the CDC has agreed to let 2,352 cruise workers disembark from ships in US waters after their employers agreed to strict transfer guidelines which prevent the cruise workers from interacting with any members of the public, taking commercial flights or staying in hotels. The rules also hold corporate executives criminally liable if any of their employees don't follow the requirements. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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