Posted on 17 July 2009. Tags: cabotage, Carnival Cruise Lines, Costa Cruise Lines, Costa Fortuna, denied boarding cruise ship, Jones Act, Key West, Maritime Law, Merchant Marine Act of 1920, Passenger Vessel Services Act, PVSA, stuck at the pier
It was to be the family trip of a lifetime for the Succes family of Chicago – a seven-day cruise around the Caribbean on the Costa Fortuna. But a missed flight, misinformation, and a brush with an outdated law dubbed the Jones Act kept the family at the dock.
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