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Carnival Begs for Docks for Virus-Beset Ships After Weeks at Sea

  • Holland America’s Zaandam bound for Florida with cases aboard
  • Other troubled Carnival ships are nearing Fort Lauderdale, too

Holland America's cruise ships the Zaandam, left, and the Rotterdam are seen in Panama City bay on March 28.

Photographer: Ivan Pisarenko/AFP via Getty Images

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Carnival Corp. urged Florida’s Broward County to accept on humanitarian grounds two Holland America Line ships, one bearing sick passengers, as they sailed for Fort Lauderdale with nowhere else to turn.