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the Carnival group will consolidate own leadership in the Australian crocieristico market
In November 2015 two ships of the Holland America Line brand will be transferred to the P&O Cruises (Australia)
May 20, 2014
Carnival Corporation has announced a plan of expansion of the activity in Australia, market - it has explained the American crocieristico group - that it is in strong increase being recorded in last the five years an increase of 130% of the number of Australian crocieristi, number that is previewed will go up from 800 thousand fleeting in 2013 to a million in 2016.
The plan previews that the 2015 P&O Cruises (Australia in November), one of the ten crocieristiche companies that form the group, introduces two ships in own fleet that will go up to five current units having placed side by side the Pacific Dawn, Pacific Jewel and Pacific Pearl. The two ships will reach from the fleet of Holland America Line, another brand of the Carnival that will replace them with a new ship of class "Pinnacle" of 99.500 tons of tonnage and of the ability to 2.660 passengers that is currently under construction near the Fincantieri Italian and that it will take in February in delivery 2016 ( on 26 October 2012).
The group American has emphasized of being the main crocieristico operator in Australia and the only company to employ cruise ships for all the year in Australian waters. "Australia - it has evidenced the managing director of Carnival Corporation, Arnold Donald - is undoubtedly one of the first crocieristici markets in greater development in the world, with indeed an extraordinary annual medium rate of growth of the passengers of 20% in the past decade. We are already solid rooted which leaders of the market and with the announcement today (yesterday, ndr) we are ready to maintain our leadership". "The addition of two other ships to the fleet - Ann Sherry has confirmed, managing director of Carnival Australia to which P&O Cruises is under responsibility - constitutes a sign that is about to begin the next generation of P&O Cruises. Moreover it will accelerate the attainment of the goal of the field constituted from the million passengers per year, that it will be obtained in 2016, four years ahead of schedule. With the P&O widening, the Carnival group will have 12 ships with home port in Australia and the fleets of P&O Cruises, Carnival Cruise Lines and Princess Cruises that call in Australia".
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Carnival Corporation has announced a plan of expansion of the activity in Australia, market - it has explained the American crocieristico group - that it is in strong increase being recorded in last the five years an increase of 130% of the number of Australian crocieristi, number that is previewed will go up from 800 thousand fleeting in 2013 to a million in 2016.
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