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AmericanSong &
AmericanPride on
Columbia & Snake
American Charles Robertson, CEO
Cruise Lines
Fast Restart with
Demand Spikes
We have 10 ships operating at this point. The remaining two
come back over the course of the next month and then we
will have our full fleet running,” said Charles Robertson, CEO
of American Cruise Lines, in a late May interview.
It was a full 363 days down for We’ve been operating in 30 states for comfortable with our operations. What
American Cruise Lines, which went years now, and we’ve always had these do they want to see with us? What are
from having zero ships cruising to 10 close relationships and contacts,” Rob- we realistically able to do?”
in the span of just three months this spring. ertson said. “And we've had a really
productive dialogue with them over the That led to a set of operating pro-
“It has been about really close coordi- past year about what will make them tocols, Robertson said, that is compa-
nation with states and local governments. ny-wide, but also specific to each state,
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