Cruise lines are warning that they may have to steer away from Canadian ports again this year because of a new set of covid vaccination and testing rules announced by Transport Canada.
Just a month before the start of an Alaska cruise season that’s scheduled to see dozens of ships embarking from Vancouver and visiting Victoria again after a two-year ban, the Canadian requirements that are more strict than new U.S. rules all the cruise lines have signed onto have the lines calling foul.
Canada’s guidelines require 100 per cent vaccination rates for passengers 12 and older and crews on ships stopping at Canadian ports. That’s a higher standard than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control standards that deem ships with at least 95 per cent of passengers and crew with two vaccine doses as “highly vaccinated” and calls having 95 percent with two doses and a booster shot the standard of excellence.
Read it all in The Cruisington Times