Florida’s cruise dominance was supposed to be permanent. Then Royal Caribbean’s flagship (world’s largest), Icon of the Seas, sails from Galveston in 2027. Icon Of The Seas Is Moving To Galveston, Not Florida. Florida has owned cruise homeporting for forty years. PortMiami, Port Canaveral, Port Everglades, the geographic and infrastructure case was so overwhelming that “cruising from Texas” has been seen as an “also ran.” Galveston was a Carnival outpost, Disney occasionally sailed from Texas as well, but it was typically the place where older ships that couldn’t hold a premium went to die. That is no longer the case. The Port of Galveston just approved a $2.4 billion, 20-year master plan with a stated goal of becoming the third-largest cruise homeport on Earth.…