Cruise ship tourists may easily explore the downtown on foot and see Duval Street, Mallory Square, visit the Aquarium, Mel Fisher Museum, Audubon House, Hemmingway's House. Today, the island is best-known with its pleasantly warm weather and great beaches, architecture, historical sites, easily-traversed streets lined with restaurants, bars, nightclubs, shops, galleries, theatres, museums. The USA bought Cayo Hueso from Spain in the early-19th-century, and eventually, the name was Americanized to Key West. The Caribbean island Key West was initially called "Bone Key" (Cayo Hueso) honoring the Indian skeletons found by the Spaniards on its shores when they landed here for the first time in the 16th-century.
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Silversea agreed to pay for the repairs plus ~USD 50,000 reimbursement (for not-received passenger fees during the restoration period). Berth damages were estimated ~USD 0,5-0,75 million. The crash resulted in minor hull damages and no injuries, but the concrete structure sustained damage that left the berth unusable (remained closed until May 2019). The ship departed the berth at ~6:30 PM and started to turn around when strong winds stopped it and pushed it back towards the dock. On November 27, 2018, upon leaving Key West, due to heavy winds, the luxury liner Silver Spirit collided with The Fisherman Wharf (aka Mallory Pier/at Mallory Square). For winter season 2018-2019, the ship was homeported in Fort Lauderdale.
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For summer season 2018, Empress OTS had scheduled roundtrips to Cuba from Tampa FL with a series of 4-5-night itineraries to Key West, Mexico ( Costa Maya, Cozumel) and Cuba ( Havana). On December 1, 2017, RCI-Royal Caribbean added a 5-night itinerary on Empress of the Seas visiting Key West and Havana (overnight). In 2019, the cruise port handled 417 ship calls and nearly 965,000 passengers. Since July 1, 2021, Key West's ban on cruise liners is a history.These provisions apply retroactively and prospectively, prohibiting, rendering void, and preempting to the state any conflicting initiative or referendum". " Provides that with respect to any port that has received or is eligible to apply for or receive certain state seaport funding, a local ballot initiative or referendum may not restrict maritime commerce in such port based on specified but unlimited factors. The Bill contains various transportation-related (road, airports, seaports) provisions but also doesn't allow ballots/referendums (conducted by local municipalities and counties) to impact the state's seaport businesses. On June 29, 2021, Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis signed "Senate Bill 1194 (2021)" (aka Transportation Bill).However, to become a law, Bill 426 must pass Florida's House of Representatives. In the bill he indicated that allowing each port city in Florida to impose its own rules on the port's maritime activities could result in "abrupt changes in the supply lines bringing goods into and out of this state", thus disrupting the state's economy. The bill (aka "State Preemption of Seaport Regulations") was introduced by Jim Boyd (Senator of District 21). In late April 2021, Florida Senate passed (in a 25 to 14 vote) the "Senate Bill 426" that could overturn Key West's initiative to limit cruise shipping.In November 2020, Key West's residents voted the three proposals and effectively banned the large cruise ships, including from the fleets of Carnival, Royal Caribbean, NCL, MSC.According to a CLIA commissioned study conducted in August 2020 (CLIA-Cruise Lines International Association), the industry's economic impact for Key West is that ~7% of the island's total spending is from cruise ship tourists who contribute ~USD 73 million of the island's total ~USD 1,2 billion annual visitor spending.The ballot's amendments restricted the ship's size ( max passenger capacity 1300), limited the number of disembarking tourists (max 1500 per day) and also gave priority to newer and safer liners - more environmental (engines, technologies) and with fewer accidents (especially onboard illness outbreaks) and better VSPs (CDC vessel sanitation records). In mid-July 2020, to the November ballot was added a referendum (3 proposed amendments) to limit the number of big-sized cruise ships calling at Key West.
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The second (Outer Mole Pier) is a free trolley bus ride away from downtown. The first/principal (Fisherman Wharf) is within walking distance from downtown. As cruise port, Key West has 2 ship docking piers. The port is located approx 150 mi (240 km) from Miami FL and just 90 mi (145 km) from Havana Cuba. Key West City includes also the nearby islands Dredgers Key, Fleming Key, Sunset Key and also Stock Island's northern part. Key West is an island, city and cruise port in the Florida Strait (within Monroe County, Florida USA) with population around 25,000.
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