LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Port of Los Angeles is anticipating a significant return of cruise operations subsequent yr.
Greater than 200 departures are forecast for the calendar yr 2022, most of them since 2008, the port introduced on Wednesday.
The primary cruise ship departure from Los Angeles because the trade was shut down by the coronavirus pandemic was when the Grand Princess departed from the port’s World Cruise Middle on September 25.
A busy weekend with three or 4 cruise ships in port can carry as much as 20,000 vacationers to the LA Waterfront district, and every ship name generates greater than $ 1 million in financial exercise, the port mentioned.
Firms scheduled to function out of Los Angeles embody Princess Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean Cruise Traces, Oceania, Regent Seven Seas, Viking Cruises, Crystal, Seabourn, Cunard, and NYK.
