Are Cruises From One US City to Another US City Illegal?

[Kamloops50]

How did POA get an exception?

 

NCL set up a company called "NCL America" . They bought an unfinished cruise ship in Europe . Towed it to the US and completed the ship here .

The Hawaii lobby got an expemtion to the description of an American built ship. It have to 60% built or finished in the US. They had to flag it in the US and use American crews. There was one or two more ships that where in Hawaii and later re-flagged to an overseas flag.

[Shmoo here]

How did POA get an exception?

 

It's my understanding that some small portion of her was built in the US. And she's US flagged.

[Philob]

NCL set up a company called "NCL America" . They bought an unfinished cruise ship in Europe . Towed it to the US and completed the ship here

 

Actually the other way around...

 

For much of her early (pre-commissioning) history, Pride of America was known as Project America 1; the first of a pair of 70,000 ton cruise ships to be built at the Litton-Ingalls shipyard in Mississippi with heavy federal subsidies. Project America was intended as a means of improving the competitiveness of American shipyards in performing commercial (non-military) construction, as well as creating the first American-registered passenger ships of any real size in decades. Project America program collapsed in 2001, when American Classic Voyages Inc., the company that was to operate the ships under its United States Lines division, filed for bankruptcy.

 

Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd acquired the unfinished ship and had her towed to Germany for completion as Pride of America for their newly launched NCL America division. In the process, she was lengthened from 850 feet (260 m). to 920 feet (280 m), increasing the gross tonnage from 72,000 to more than 80,000. Under NCL America, the ship was initially slated for completion in 2004, but the delivery date was pushed back to 2005 after a major storm hit the Lloyd Werft shipyard and caused considerable damage to the vessel, partially sinking her at its berth.[6] A special exemption on the part of the US Government allowed the partially foreign built ship, and her mostly German-built sister, to attain US registry.

[swedish weave]

Another exception to the PVSA that hasn't been mentioned here is the "cruise to nowhere".

Edited May 18, 2015 by swedish weave

[Shmoo here]

Another exception to the PVSA that hasn't been mentioned here is the "cruise to nowhere".

 

au contraire mon ami (well, OK, not mentioned HERE, but mentioned in the PVSA):

 

Cruise to Nowhere

A “cruise to nowhere” is not considered coastwise transportation. A “cruise to nowhere” is the transportation of passengers from a U.S. point to the high seas or foreign waters and back to the same point from which the passengers embarked, assuming the passengers do not go ashore, even temporarily, at another U.S. point. See 29 O.A.G. 318 (1912).

Edited May 18, 2015 by Shmoo here