Port of Galveston workers call for end of CDC's cruise orders
GALVESTON -- Dozens of people who rely on the cruise ships, and cruise passengers, to move in and out of the Port of Galveston rallied together on Wednesday to plead with the U.S. government to remove one of the hurdles preventing cruises from resuming in the United States.
Speakers at the rally at Galveston’s Cruise Terminal No. 1 asked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to let a no-sail order expire as planned at the end of October.
No-sail orders, combined with voluntary shutdowns by the global cruise industry, have paused cruises in the United States since the middle of March. The orders are meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on cruise ships, which health officials have pointed to as the source of some of the earliest outbreaks in the United States and as particularly at risk for future outbreaks.
The shutdown has cost cruise companies and the ports they operate out of millions of dollars in revenue. It also has meant that people who work on the docks and at the cruise terminals are losing out on pay.
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