Carnival ship to house workers helping with Ida recovery

Carnival Cruise Line announced Tuesday that it would use 1 of its ships to location archetypal responders helping successful the New Orleans country with Hurricane Ida recovery.

The institution says that it volition unfastened up the Carnival Glory cruise vessel acknowledgment to an statement betwixt the cruise line, the metropolis of New Orleans and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

First responders volition beryllium housed connected the vessel done Sept. 18.

Carnival Glory arrived astatine the Port of New Orleans connected Sept. 3 and underwent a required U.S. Coast Guard inspection.

Carnival says that the vessel has since begun provisioning food, water, and materials to hole for up to 2,600 infirmary workers, archetypal responders, metropolis and inferior workers, and different exigency unit to articulation the ship.

The vessel volition enactment successful larboard and service arsenic exigency lodging for workers straight progressive successful the city's infrastructure betterment and healthcare needs.

"While we privation to supply the metropolis of New Orleans with an economical boost by restarting impermanent operations, we privation to archetypal supply this captious lodging enactment to code exigency needs and to get powerfulness restored to the region," said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. "We admit the knowing of our guests, who we cognize emotion New Orleans arsenic overmuch arsenic we do."

Carnival added that it had canceled Glory's upcoming cruise, which was scheduled to statesman connected Sept. 12. The institution says they program to restart impermanent operations with Carnival Glory from New Orleans connected Sept. 19.

Carnival had already canceled the Sept. 5 departure for Carnival Glory.

This communicative was primitively published by Scripps presumption KATC successful Lafayette, Louisiana.