ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Small luxury cruise ships newly built for the Arctic are canceling many of their planned calls in Northwest Alaska this summer, with many citing the Russian war in Ukraine.
Nome, about 200 miles across the Bering Sea from Russia, had been receiving small but growing numbers of the cruise ships. They’re built to handle ice and shuttle tourists to remote villages and wildlife-rich waters.
Then COVID-19 happened in 2020, canceling the cruises in Nome — and in other parts of Alaska — for two straight years.
