Royal Caribbean has no timeline for bringing its cruise ships back to Labadee, on Haiti's north coast, the company's president and chief executive, Michael Bayley, said.

The cruise line suspended its calls at Labadee in April 2025 and has since extended the suspension through June 2027. No ship is scheduled to visit before July 2027 at the earliest.

“We have been present in Labadee for 30 years,” Bayley said. “We have gone through periods before where we had to leave Labadee until things stabilized. This time, the situation is simply lasting much longer, and it is far more violent and dangerous.”

He said the company will not return until it is certain conditions are safe, and called the situation “truly a tragedy, in many respects.”

Bayley acknowledged the effect on residents near Cap-Haïtien whose income depends on the ships. He said Royal Caribbean continues to support its employees in Labadee with reduced pay while the calls are suspended.

Labadee, a private beach area leased by the cruise line, was for decades the main way foreign tourists visited Haiti.