Carnival Cruise Line has introduced that they’ve positioned an order for a fourth Excel class cruise ship that may debut within the spring of 2027.
This new Excel class ship can be 180,000 gross tons in measurement, carry 6,400 passengers, and be a sister ship to Mardi Gras (2021), Carnival Celebration (2022), and Carnival Jubilee (2023). Carnival didn’t say what the identify of this fourth Excel class can be however that it might be constructed on the Meyer Werft shipyard.
“Our Excel-class ships have been an incredible addition to the Carnival fleet and confirmed very talked-about with our visitors,” mentioned Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. “Because the world’s hottest cruise line, this new ship allows us to proceed the expansion of our unimaginable fleet as we welcome our loyal visitors again to cruise extra regularly and entice new-to-cruise visitors to expertise all {that a} Carnival cruise has to supply.”
This ship would be the tenth Excel class ship ordered by Carnival Company. Different Carnival cruise traces that function this class of ship are Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, and P&O Cruises.
The identify, homeport, and itineraries for this new ship can be introduced at a later date.
“Constructing on our sturdy efficiency and rising momentum all over the world, we’re excited to renew our newbuild program and additional improve our world fleet with one more state-of-the-art ship that may wow Carnival Cruise Line’s visitors,” mentioned Josh Weinstein, CEO of Carnival Company. “With one newbuild scheduled for supply in 2025, none for 2026, and this order being our solely anticipated newbuild in 2027, our accountable capital strategy will help using our substantial free money circulate over the subsequent a number of years to strategically enhance our stability sheet, considerably scale back our leverage ranges and proceed to switch worth from debt holders to shareholders.
“We’re following by on our measured capability progress technique with the addition of 1 to 2 ships per 12 months starting in 2027, which can be allotted to our cruise traces that almost all want the capability to fulfill outsized demand, delivering a lovely payback interval. We additionally stay targeted on driving income progress all through our portfolio of world-class cruise traces by persevering with to enhance execution throughout all features of our operation, yielding increased return on invested capital,” mentioned Weinstein.
“We’re very happy that the partnership between the MEYER Group and Carnival Company will proceed with this new order,” mentioned Bernd Eikens, CEO MEYER Group.
Carnival Cruise Line has 27 cruise ships of their fleet. This new LNG powered Excel class ship will give them a fleet of 28 ships by 2027 and is at the moment the one vessel that Carnival has on order.
Carnival Company is the world’s largest cruise firm working 9 cruise traces that sail all all over the world.
