Disembarking rules from a foreign port

[Lynnees]

If someone who sails from Baltimore needs to leave the ship when it is in Freeport (after stops at other foreign ports), are they OK or will they be charged under the Jones Act?

[GUT2407]

If someone who sails from Baltimore needs to leave the ship when it is in Freeport (after stops at other foreign ports), are they OK or will they be charged under the Jones Act?

Which Freeport, Jamaica or an American one?

 

But no not under the Jones Act, which is about Cargo

[GUT2407]

Also which foreign ports?

 

Do they qualify as distant

[riffatsea]

The person needs to contact the cruise line and ask about it. There are procedures to follow.

[Lynnees]

I have said he needs to call Carnival. It's Freeport, Bahamas. It looks like Grand Turk is the farthest away.

[thinfool]

If someone who sails from Baltimore needs to leave the ship when it is in Freeport (after stops at other foreign ports), are they OK or will they be charged under the Jones Act?

 

No problem with the Jones Act which does not apply, or the PVSA which would not apply either....Freeport is not a US port.

 

Where your problem is...is with the cruise line. Without an iron clad reason (like serious illness or death), they no longer allow downline disembarkation. Partly due to paperwork and fees, partly because they have to arrange with local immigration authorities for their inspection services and the ship has to resubmit the passenger manifest with US CBP.

 

Bahamian authorities will be involved with this situation.

You will need at least a passport card, possibly the book.

[S.S.Oceanlover]

No problem with the Jones Act which does not apply, or the PVSA which would not apply either....Freeport is not a US port.

 

Where your problem is...is with the cruise line. Without an iron clad reason (like serious illness or death), they no longer allow downline disembarkation. Partly due to paperwork and fees, partly because they have to arrange with local immigration authorities for their inspection services and the ship has to resubmit the passenger manifest with US CBP.

 

Bahamian authorities will be involved with this situation.

You will need at least a passport card, possibly the book.

 

Thanks for the correct info Thinfool.:)

 

Also to the OP: It doesn't matter if you stopped in foreign ports before getting to Freeport. It still doesn't violate the PVSA.

 

Bill

[Purvis1231]

It does violate the terms of the cruise contract 2.e.

[rpyne]

Which Freeport, Jamaica or an American one?

 

But no not under the Jones Act, which is about Cargo

 

The Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886 (sometimes abbreviated to PVSA, Passenger Services Act, or PSA) is a protectionist piece of United States legislation which came into force in 1886 relating to cabotage. Essentially, it says:

No foreign vessels shall transport passengers between ports or places in the United States, either directly or by way of a foreign port, under a penalty of $200 (now $762) for each passenger so transported and landed.

[summersigh]

It can be done but prior permission / arrangements must be made with the cruise line.

 

On our Bermuda cruise we dined with a woman who lived in Bermuda. She'd had heart surgery in Baltimore and was not allowed to fly home so she took the cruise ship and debarked when we got there.