Carnival Corp. Introducing 12 New Ships By 2014

Carnival Cruise Corporation and all its auxiliary brands are going to deliver twelve new cruise ships between May 2010 and June 2014. With the capacity for 3,600 passengers each, the ships will be the biggest ever built by the Italian shipyards. 80% of all accommodation onboard each ship will have private balconies. Public areas on the new Princess cruise ships will be expanded radically and some of the long-established Princess Cruises décor will be changed somewhat with some lavish additions.

Carnival lately picked the name for its brand new Carnival Cruise Lines ship, the Carnival Breeze that will debut in spring 2012. Carnival Breeze will hold some notable enhancements onboard for cruise passengers - including a 23,750 square foot spa and salon, a Waterworks aqua park with a corkscrew slide and a variety of cabin sizes for guests to choose from including ocean view suites, with two bathrooms and five sleeping berths.

Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas is also much anticipated, as details of new facilities and activities were just released. Some of the highlights will feature the Broadway show “Chicago: The Musical,” as well as “Blue Planet,” a second production show featuring aerial artistry, acrobats, and the line’s singers and dancers and 3-D movie screens will be installed.

Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth is set to deploy in late 2010, as a sister ship to Queen Victoria. Scheduled to depart Southampton on 12^th October, 2010, the Queen Elizabeth will take the same route the QEII took on her maiden voyage, taking cruise passengers to Vigo, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma and Madeira.

Norwegian Cruise Line has almost completed the mega-ship, Norwegian Epic. It will be able to hold 4,200 passengers and weigh153,000 tonnes. Other ships debuting in 2010 are Oceania Marina, MSC Magnifica, Holland America Line’s Nieuw Amsterdam. 2011 will see the realization of  Carnival Magic, MSC Musica and Maraviglia, an unnamed vessel from Seabourn, a new Oceania-class Oceania ship and Costa Cruises’ Costa Favolosa.