Tour operators and other Haines businesses may be left holding bills for Cruise West, a 37-year-old cruise line with local ties that announced a “restructuring” last week and stopped answering its phone.

It has since sold its largest vessel, the 120-passenger Spirit of Oceanus, suspended bookings, and replaced its website with a press release.

Seattle-based Cruise West once had as many as 80 dockings in Haines, although that number was cut in recent years, with…