Our sister brand Carnival Cruise Line based recently paused Carnival Glory’s return to service to deploy her to New Orleans to help support recovery efforts after Hurricane Ida.
Carnival Glory began provisioning food, water and materials to prepare for up to 2,600 hospital workers, first responders, city and utility workers and other emergency personnel to join the ship. She’ll stay in port and serve as emergency housing for front line workers directly involved in the city’s infrastructure recovery and healthcare needs.
Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. commented: “While we want to provide the city of New Orleans with an economic boost by restarting guest operations, we want to first provide this critical housing support to address emergency needs and to get power restored to the region.”
Added Brandy D. Christian, President and CEO Port NOLA and CEO of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad. “Port NOLA appreciates Carnival’s deployment of Carnival Glory to New Orleans. Her berths will accommodate the hardworking first responders and essential personnel working on storm recovery efforts in our region. Port NOLA, our Federal, state, and local partner agencies all support those who are quickly restoring critical infrastructure in the city and helping to get cargo moving again.”
This is a fantastic example of our Culture Essentials in practice as we respect and protect the communities we visit.