The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (all cruise ships in U.S. waters or intending to return; 250+ passenger capacity)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- PHS Act §§ 361, 365 (42 U.S.C. §§ 264, 268); 42 C.F.R. parts 70 and 71
- Issued
- 2020-03-14 Mar. 14, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-14 ('This action was effective March 14, 2020') (read as 2020-03-14)
- End
- 30 days; extended Apr. 9, 2020 (FED-028), July 16, 2020 (FED-029), Sept. 30, 2020 (FED-030) to Oct. 31, 2020; replaced by the Conditional Sailing Order Oct. 30, 2020 (FED-031) (read as 2020-12-31)
- In force
- Mar. 14, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureTravel and quarantineEvents and venues
- Addressees
- cruise ship operators ('all commercial, non-cargo, passenger-carrying vessels operating in' U.S. waters with 250 or more persons)
- ports and the travel trade that sells cruises
- Functions reached
- TV travel demand (hotels-travel)
- GS group sales and travel agencies
- CB cruise passengers and the port economies (Miami, Port Canaveral, Galveston, Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Baltimore, New York)
- SC provisioning and port services
- Collection
- Federal health, safety and transport layer FED-A
Operative words
announces the issuance of a No Sail Order and Suspension of Further Embarkation on March 14, 2020 for all cruise ships that are not voluntarily suspending operation.... This Notice of No Sail Order and Other Measures Related to Operations shall apply only to the subset of carriers described below and hereinafter referred to as 'cruise ships,' except this Order shall not apply to any cruise ship that voluntarily suspends operations for the period of this Order
Enforcement
42 U.S.C. § 271; 42 C.F.R. §§ 70.18, 71.2 (criminal penalties); Coast Guard captain-of-the-port authority
Notes
Closed an entire mode of travel and an entire class of venues by federal order for the whole of 2020Q2, Q3 and Q4; the Conditional Sailing Order then kept passenger operations closed through the simulated-voyage and certification phases until June-July 2021.