Carnival Cruise Line adds two ships, Royal ship heads to drydock

Cruise lines usually catch attention-grabbing techniques to develop their fleets.

In every single place in the Covid pandemic, some rising cruise lines had been in a situation to aquire ships that got here to market when competitors had been forced to promote them. Royal Caribbean even added a ship to its high-cease Silversea line when it got the dilapidated Crystal Endeavour for $275 million.

That was as soon as a gigantic financial savings over a brand new fabricate and allowed the cruise line to retire an older ship.

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Carnival Cruise Line has stumbled on an spell binding come to grow its fleet with out paying for new builds. In every single place in the final few years, it has moved a couple of ships from its Costa line to its namesake brand (after doing some work so as to add some traditional Carnival strategies).

Now, it be closing the P&O brand in Australia and transferring those ships to Carnival Cruise Line.

Doug Parker has that story and extra in the March 11 version of Cruise Knowledge This day.

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Carnival Cruise Line provides new ships

Transcript:

Here is Cruise Knowledge This day with Doug Parker. Good morning.

Here is your cruise news for Tuesday, March 11th.

Carnival is getting two extra ships this month after 92 years P&O Cruises Australia is officially ceasing operations this week. Pacific Budge sailed out of Sydney Harbor the old day for its final voyage with P&O Australia.

The ship will return to Sydney on the 14th the attach it may launch up its transition into Carnival Budge.

In the meantime, Pacific Bump into ended its cruise these days. Both ships will endure a two-week moist dock in Melbourne earlier than joining the Carnival Cruises Australia fleet this spring.

P&O's web situation is officially offline and now redirects to carnival.com.

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Carnival returns luggage; Ships enter drydock

And a couple celebrating their 26th anniversary aboard Carnival Magic had their luggage returned weeks after their sailing handiest to catch several items lacking.

Jason and Tammy Merritt from Oklahoma tracked the secure's attach with their Apple AirPods and a lot times told Carnival team, however their claims had been dismissed. Now, the suitcase was as soon as at final stumbled on on board lacking about 39 items, in conjunction with an iPad, prescription glasses, and a CPAP machine.

Carnival later informed them that every other passenger had stolen the secure, however they allowed them to head away with out penalties.

The Merritts' procedure to take lawful action, announcing that the cruise line's compensation provide was as soon as insufficient. They hope to secure this case.

And quite a lot of alternative cruise ships are undergoing dry docks this month for refurbishments, repairs, and brand convergence.

A story compiled by Cruise Commerce Knowledge info Royal Caribbean's Attract of the Seas in Spain for upgrades, in conjunction with new eating venues and a revamped pool deck.

In the meantime, Cunard's Queen Elizabeth is in Singapore for routine repairs and venue updates. The Star Voyager, formerly Pacific Explorer, is additionally in Singapore making ready for its debut under the Star Cruises brand.

In the meantime, Majestic Princess is in Italy for scheduled repairs earlier than resuming service subsequent month.

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[email protected]. Catch yourself a perfect Tuesday. I'm Doug Parker with Cruise Knowledge This day.

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