Carnival Cruise Ship Suffers Technical Speed Problem, Cancels Mexico Itinerary

Carnival cruise ship, Carnival Dream has canceled its Mexico itinerary following speed related issues with the vessel.

A technical issue cropped up over the ship’s maximum cruising speed and affected the last leg of the 5-day cruise out of Galveston, Texas.

The vessel departed from Port of Galveston on August 24.

Passengers currently onboard the vessel said they noticed that ship has been facing an issue with its cruising speed.

Carnival Dream has a passenger capacity of over 3,600 and has double occupancy. Although repairs had been conducted the problem is persisting.

Carnival Dream also canceled the scheduled call in Progreso on Wednesday and proceeded with day sailing.

Since the ship is cruising at a slower speed to get back home it chose to skip Progreso to be on time for its scheduled arrival on August 29.

According to cruise news, Carnival Dream’s next voyage will be on August 29 and will sail a 4-day cruise to Galveston with a call to Cozumel.

It is hoped that the slow speed problem will be cured during turn around and will not impact on upcoming sailings.

Meanwhile, Carnival Cruise Line made changes in an itinerary in one of its ships in the light of the raging hurricane Dorian in the Atlantic.

Guests who booked under various cruise deals on Carnival Sunrise received a letter informing the changes. The cruise ship departed from New York on August 27.

Carnival’s legal challenge in Cuba

Meanwhile, a lawsuit urging to punish Carnival Corporation for doing business in Cuba using assets expropriated by the Fidel Castro government will continue, per a ruling by a federal judge in Miami.

The litigant, Javier Garcia-Bengochea, sued the cruise corporation under a new provision of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act that allows U.S. nationals and naturalized Cubans to seek damages for property seized by Cuba’s government after the communist takeover in 1959.

Garcia-Bengochea has a claim on port buildings and piers in Santiago de Cuba where Carnival Corp.’s cruise ships had been docking since Barack Obama's regime established relations with the Castro government.

Carnival appealed the U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King to dismiss the case, saying it has taken permission from the U.S. Treasury Department to do business in Cuba.

But King’s ruling on Monday said he was “not persuaded.”

The lawsuits were filed in May after the Trump administration decided to enforce the Helms-Burton Act. Carnival said it would fight the case.