Carnival Corp. Is Adding Three More Ships, All of Them Huge
Photo Credit: A ship on order for Costa Cruises is shown in this rendering. Parent company Carnival Corp. on Tuesday announced it was ordering three more vessels in the same class. Carnival Corp.
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It looks like Carnival Corp. has found a ship type it likes. Including the order announced Tuesday, the cruise company is adding seven 5,200-passenger megaships that are powered by liquefied natural gas across four brands.
The world's largest cruise ship company is going big with its latest batch of ship orders.
Carnival Corp. announced on Tuesday that it had signed agreements with shipyards in Germany and Finland for three 180,000-ton vessels that are scheduled to arrive between 2020 and 2022.
The ships, which will be able to hold approximately 5,200 passengers at double occupancy, will be the largest yet for the brands that will sail them: Carnival Cruise Line, which is getting two, and P&O Cruises UK, which will add one. A spokesman said Carnival won't disclose the cost of the new vessels, which are being built by Meyer Werft and Meyer Turku.
All of the vessels will be fully powered by liquefi
