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In single 18 months the ability to the fleet of the Carnival group will grow of 10% with the insertion of four new ships from cruise
In solo 2015 will be carried out participations of modernization or restructure on 17 ships
November 6, 2014
In a year and means the ability to the fleet of ships from cruise of the American group Carnival Corporation & plc, that he is world leader of the crocieristico market, will grow almost of 10% with the insertion of four new ships between the end of this year and the end of the 2015 that will enter to take part of four marks crocieristici of the group: Princess Cruises, Costa Crociere, P&O Cruises UK and AIDA. This week the baptisms of two new ships of the first two brands, Regal Princess are carried out and Costa Diadema, while within the October of the 2015 there will be the debut of two new ships of P&O Cruises and AIDA.
This fast widening of the ability to the fleet of the group American takes part of widest slowly business than Carnival that it previews to introduce between 2014 and the 2017 nine new destined ships to seven of its mark crocieristici: AIDA, Carnival Cruise Lines, Costa Crociere, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises UK, Princess Cruises and Seabourn.
Yesterday Princess Cruises has officially christened the new Regal Princess of 141.000 tons of tonnage and the ability to 3.600 passengers that, commissioning in May 2014, will begin its first season of cruises of the Caribbean with departures from Port Everglades. Tomorrow instead to Genoa the ceremony of baptism of Costa Diadema, the new flagship of Costa Crociere of 132.500 tons of tonnage and the ability to 4.947 passengers will be carried out, that it will then begin a crocieristico program in the Mediterranean for all the summer of 2015.
In March of the next year, moreover, in the fleet of P&O Cruises UK will enter the Britain that, with a tonnage of 141.000 tons and an ability to beyond 3.600 passengers, will be the larger ship never constructed for the British crocieristico market, while in the autumn of the 2015 German crocieristica company AIDA it will christen its new AIDAprima flagship, of 124.500 tons of tonnage, that it will be able to accommodate 3,250 passengers.
Therefore in 2016 will make its debut the Seen Carnival of the Carnival Cruise Lines, ship from 133.500 tons of tonnage that will be most major unit never entered in the fleet of the company. Then Holland America Line will launch its new ship of 99.500 tons of tonnage ms Koningsdam that will be able to transport 2,650 passengers. In 2016 AIDA will always introduce a new twin ship of AIDAprima with an ability to 3.250 passengers, while Seabourn will introduce its ship of more recent luxury that, with an ability to 604 passengers, is previewed largest will be never constructed by the brand.
At last in the 2017 Princess Cruises will take in delivery a new ship of 143.000 tons of tonnage that will be constructed by the Fincantieri Italian.
To these new ships participations of modernization or restructure of ships will join that make already part of the fleet of the group. In the solo 2015 these intense activities will be carried out on 17 ships of six marks crocieristici of Carnival. The plans of restructure of the next year include two ships that give the fleet of Holland America Line will pass to that of the P&O Cruises Australia and that they will be object of a complete restructure before to share in the November 2015 with the new names of Pacific Air and the Pacific Eden.
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