Carnival Cruise Line expands fleet with three new ships
Carnival Corporation & plc introduced that it ordered three new ships from Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to reinforce its namesake Carnival Cruise Line’s fleet .
Carnival’s newest acquisitions embrace a new class of vessel, at practically 230,000 gross registered tonnes.
Carnival Cruise Line president Christine Duffy mentioned of the vessel: “For this next generation ship, we are focused on creating innovative guest experiences that will take Carnival Cruise Line into the future with new fun features and excitement that we know our guests will love.”
The firm’s settlement with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri offers for the design, engineering, and development of those liquefied pure gasoline (LNG)-powered ships, which will probably be delivered within the summers of 2029, 2031 and 2033, respectively.
Bigger and Better
With over 3,000 visitor staterooms, the new ships would be the largest within the Carnival Corporation world fleet and can have the ability to ship enjoyable to extra friends than any ship on this planet when carrying nearly 8,000 friends at full capability.
Once delivered in 2033, Carnival Corporation may have a complete of 16 LNG-powered ships, making up nearly 30 % of Carnival Corporation’s world capability and delivering speedy greenhouse gasoline emission reductions.
The new ships will even characteristic superior power effectivity, waste administration, and emission discount applied sciences to additional cut back the corporate’s environmental footprint.
Growing the road
This latest announcement is the fifth new ship order for Carnival Cruise Line for 2024.
Earlier this yr, Carnival Corporation positioned its first newbuild orders in 5 years for 2 extra Excel-class ships that can be part of the Carnival Cruise Line fleet in 2027 and 2028.
The firm additionally lately introduced a sequence of strategic shifts to additional optimise the composition of its world model portfolio and to extend visitor capability for Carnival Cruise Line, transferring a complete of 5 vessels from sister manufacturers to the Carnival Cruise Line fleet between 2023 and March 2025.
According to Carnival Corporation CEO Josh Weinstein: “We are doubling down on the growth of Carnival Cruise Line, our highest-returning brand, to keep up with the incredibly strong demand we continue to see for the world’s most popular cruise line.”
Weinstein added that, at current, Carnival’s newbuild pipeline will take only one supply in 2025, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2031 and 2033. This disciplined strategy to progress strategically directs new capability to the areas of highest demand at a fee of 1 to 2 new ships per yr.