Norwegian Cruise Line to pay $110 million for use of Cuban port - SAFETY4SEA - Safety4Sea

A U.S. justice ruled connected December 30, that Norwegian Cruise Line indispensable wage $110 cardinal successful damages for usage of a larboard that Cuba’s authorities confiscated successful 1960.

The determination by U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom successful Miami follows her March ruling that the usage of the Havana Cruise Port Terminal constituted trafficking successful confiscated spot owned by the plaintiff, Delaware-registered Havana Docks Corp.

Plaintiff is awarded $109,848,747.87 successful damages

reads the decision, adding that Norwegian should besides wage an further $3 cardinal successful ineligible fees and costs.

U.S. cruise ships successful 2016 started traveling to Cuba for the archetypal clip successful decades pursuing a detente negotiated by erstwhile President Barack Obama that eased immoderate provisions of a U.S. embargo successful spot since the Cold War.

But the Trump medication successful 2019 ordered a halt to each specified cruises amid efforts to unit Cuba implicit its enactment for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an ideological adversary of Washington.

The Trump medication besides allowed U.S. citizens to writer 3rd parties for utilizing spot seized by Cuban authorities, a proviso of the Helms-Burton Act that had been waived by each erstwhile president since the law’s 1996 passage.

Havana Docks says Cuba, which has been taxable to a decades-old U.S. commercialized embargo, ne'er compensated it for the takeover of the property.

As a result, it sued the 4 cruise lines successful 2019 successful the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Judge  Bloom successful March held that the companies were liable for damages nether the Helms-Burton Act, besides known arsenic the Libertad Act.