Reports of the death of Alaska’s cruise season may have been greatly exaggerated.through February 2022, which appeared to deliver a fatal blow to Alaska’s upcoming cruise season.
On Friday, both U.S. senators from Alaska threw out a lifeline. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan, both Republicans, have introduced the “.” If passed, the new legislation would allow cruise ships to sail to Alaska without requiring a stop in Canada, as U.S. law would normally require. The “Alaska Tourism Recovery Act” would alleviate the PVSA restrictions for cruise ships transporting passengers between Washington and Alaska., Murkowski called her legislation a “technical fix” that would provide “economic certainty at a time when Alaskans need it most.”
Murkowski and Sullivan’s bill is just one solution that has been floated in recent weeks. Alaska Congressman Don Young has introduced his own bill in the House of Representatives, also called the “,” that would “provide a temporary PVSA workaround by deeming roundtrip voyages between Alaska and Washington State as foreign voyages for the purposes of U.S. law.” Young’s proposed legislation would apply only for the duration of Canada’s cruise prohibition.
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