Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is Cruise Radio.

So it's no secret that the 2017 hurricane season was complete devastation to the eastern Caribbean islands.

And Carnival Cruise Line has 20 out of 25 of their ships based in the Caribbean. So I thought we'd do a Caribbean update here. We have the Vice President of Port Operations, Terry Thornton. He's with Carnival Cruise Line on the line, and he joins us. Hey, Terry, how you doing, buddy? Great to be with you again. So obviously deciding when a port is ready to receive ships again is a tough call. What was the final factor that led

you to say, okay, San Juan is ready for business? Well, there's two different ways to think about

San Juan. One would be home port operations where the ship actually turns around there,

boards new people and debarks people, and then there is calls that just, we call them transit calls,

calls that go to San Juan just a visit for the day.

So they're a little bit different in terms of what you need to make sure that they all do the best things for our guests.

Let me start with transit port first, maybe that, because we've been going back to San Juan for a while now as a transit port.

And what you need there is obviously,

after the hurricane went through,

it needs to be cleaned up, it needs to be tidy,

it needs to have the ability for people

to move around with transportation.

We have to have a vast majority of the shore excursions

that we had in place before the storm available to our guests

because it's really important.

And then in terms of people that don't do an organization excursion, what is there to do for them?

Can they walk around old San Juan or the shops open or the restaurants open?

Are there abilities to walk the other features by themselves and do things on your own?

So we look at that very closely.

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