# Covid-19 News/Updates **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [March 18, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/covid-19-news-updates/54622 "2020-03-18T16:13:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 121
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> **[Cruise lines, early source of coronavirus infections, out of bailout package](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/26/cruise-line-bailout/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&wpisrc=al_business__alert-politics--alert-economy&wpmk=1)** > > The industry’s trade group, the Cruise Lines International Association, acknowledged Thursday that the major cruise lines weren’t included in the package, despite meeting with Vice President Mike Pence and a phone call from Micky Arison, chairman of... > But unlike those industries, major cruise operators don’t locate their headquarters in the United States, so they will not have access to [$500 billion](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/26/senate-stimulus-bill-coronavirus-2-trillion-list-what-is-in-it/?tid=lk_inline_manual_3&itid=lk_inline_manual_3) in aid for large employers in the massive [stimulus bill](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/25/coronavirus-relief-stimulus-bill/?tid=lk_inline_manual_3&itid=lk_inline_manual_3), the industry’s trade group said Thursday. > > Language in the 883-page bill [passed by the Senate](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/26/senate-trump-coronavirus-economic-stimulus-2-trillion/?tid=lk_inline_manual_4&itid=lk_inline_manual_4) says that to be eligible for aid from the $500 billion fund, companies must be certified as “created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States” as well as having “significant operations in” and a majority of employees based in the United States. > > Major cruise companies have located their primary headquarters overseas, which for years has allowed them to pay almost no federal taxes and avoid some U.S. regulations. To staff their ships, the companies rely heavily on foreign workers from the Philippines, Indonesia and India. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/covid-19-news-updates/54622)._