The Jones Act
We were on a Celebrity cruise early last year that saw us leaving Fort Lauderdale and next overnighting in New Orleans, then off to other Caribbean ports before returning to Fort Lauderdale. I have since read about something called the Jones Act that apparently restricts non US flagged and crewed ships from sailing between two US ports such that non US flagged ships cannot apparently sail directly from Seattle to Alaska, for example, without stopping at one foreign port (in this case, in Canada
Been a while since I was on the Celebrity board, so didn't see this thread until now. I will respond to some of the ideas/topics, without responding to snarky comments I usually get from a couple of the posters on this thread.
As noted by others, the PVSA refers to all passenger vessels, not just cruise ships, and the international definition of "passenger vessel" is any vessel that carries more than 12 persons for hire. Because any relaxation/modification/exemption of this law wou
