The
Port of Tampa was shut down this morning for a few hours after a K-9
dog had a hit on a pallet of supplies that were to be loaded onto
a Royal
Caribbean cruise ship,
this first reported by WUSF
News.
“During
a routine cargo screening shortly after 9 a.m. today, a
specially-trained K-9 alerted to an item on the Terminal 3 dock near
a Royal Caribbean cruise ship,” a Hillsborough County
Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said. “A second K-9 was
brought in and also alerted to the same item.”
After
screening the pallet it was cleared and released. The pallet
had nothing on it but liquor that was shipped from the cruise line’s
Miami warehouse.
Jewel
of the Seas continued embarkation earlier this afternoon and will
sail a four-day cruise to Cozumel without interruption.
The
Tampa cruise ship terminal operates cruise traffic year-round.
