Cruise News Briefing - December 30, 2021. Royal Caribbean to waive cancellation fees for cruises sailing through mid-January. Puerto Rico requires testing for all cruise passengers, causing several ships to cancel calls there. Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 will be skipping a call in New York City so it can add more essential crew in Barbados due to COVID cases onboard. Cruise stocks were down for CCL, RCL, and NCLH.