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On this episode, President and CEO of MSC Cruises will join us, Mr. Rick Saso, but first, Stewart's here on the cruise guys here. Hey, guys. Hey, man. Give us a quick Egypt update. Well, you know, the cruise lines are kind of like in a wait-and-see attitude as far as when they're going back, but more the riverboats and tour operators are kind of canceling things through the end

of March because it just takes time to, you know, ramp things up. But the beauty of the cruise

lines is they can make, you know, changes. But, you know, in nearby Tunisia, which is also

experiencing, you know, problems in their country, it got bad enough that Disney, which is heading out there this summer with Disney Magic,

said, we're not going to do it.

So Disney canceled Tunisia for the entire summer and replaced it with Palermo-Cissile,

which is certainly a nice port of call to go to.

Well, there you go.

Any Belize updates?

Well, Belize is continuing their wine campaign against Carnival.

They're just not happy with what Carnival is willing to pay,

and Carnival is the customer.

And, you know, Carnival is requiring a certain level of insurance and tender size and tender size again you know there's a distance between the ships and the the

peers there and carnal wants a minimum of a hundred and fifty passenger peers

and allegedly is willing to pay five dollars per person which you know

it sounds like uh... a pretty good deal. Yeah.

But Tunisia apparently wants over $7, and Carnival is just rerouting some ships away.

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