Today, in Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, the launch of the Norwegian Aqua cruise ship was celebrated, the first unit of the "Prima Plus" class of the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). With 156,300 tons of gross tonnage and a length of approximately 322 meters, the new ship will be 10% larger than the first two ships in the class "Prima", also built by Fincantieri.

Work on Norwegian Aqua will continue until its debut scheduled for April 2025 when the ship will take up service by making seven-day itineraries in the Caribbean with depart from Port Canaveral, Florida. There will be stopovers in the tropical destinations in Puerto Plata (Dominican Republic), Tortola (British Virgin Islands), St. Thomas (Virgin Islands and Great Stirrup Cay, NCL's private island in the Bahamas. After the Caribbean season, from August 2025 to October 2025 Norwegian Aqua will operate five- and seven-day itineraries at Bermuda departing from New York, and then five-day cruises and seven days in the Eastern Caribbean departing from Miami from October 2025 to April 2026.