Carnival Corporation

Carnival Dream and Carnival Magic are the names Carnival Cruise Lines has chosen for its two 130,000-ton SuperLiners scheduled to enter service in October 2009 and June 2011, respectively. Representing a new class of vessel for the line, the 3,652-passenger “Fun Ships” will be the largest in Carnival Cruise Lines’ fleet.

Including Carnival Dream and Carnival Magic, Carnival Cruise Lines has four new ships on order, all of which are being built by Italy’s Fincantieri shipyard. The first of these, the 110,000-ton Carnival Freedom, is slated to debut in Europe March 5, 2007; the 112,000-ton Carnival Splendor is scheduled to enter service in July 2008.

These four vessels will join Carnival’s current 21-ship fleet which operates voyages ranging from three to 16 days in length to the Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, New England, Bermuda, Europe and the Greek Isles.

Also, Carnival Corporation & plc has signed a letter of intent for a new 116,000-ton ship for its P&O Cruises brand. The new vessel, which will have 3,076 lower passenger berths, will be built by Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri at its Monfalcone yard, at an estimated all-in cost of €535 million.

The ship is scheduled for delivery in spring 2010. Externally, the vessel will be similar to P&O Cruises Ventura, which is scheduled to enter service in spring 2008, but the new product features and interior design will be announced at a future date.

This latest ship order will bring the total number of vessels in the P&O Cruises fleet to seven, including five existing ships, as well as the new Ventura, which will be Britain’s largest cruise ship when it enters service in April 2008.

With this new order Carnival Corporation & plc has 20 new ships on order, 14 of which are being constructed by Fincantieri.

Costa Cruise Line

A new cruise ship of 92.700 metric tons will be delivered in March 2010 and it will be the same with one is being built and it will be delivered in 2009. It is the fourth order from Costa Crociere while the total investment is approximately two billion euro.

Furthermore, two more vessels of 112.000 metric tons are in the pipeline which is identical to Costa Concordia. One is Costa Cerena that will enter service in May 2007 while the second one will be ready in 2009.

Celebrity Cruises

Celebrity Eclipse will be the new third ship in the company’s 118,000 gross-registered-ton Solstice-class fleet. Celebrity Eclipse will make its maiden voyage in 2010, following sister ships Celebrity Solstice in 2008 and Celebrity Equinox in 2009, bringing the Celebrity fleet to 13 ships.

Like its sister ships, Celebrity Eclipse will have larger standard staterooms, 90 percent of which will be outside, and 85 percent of those will have verandas. German shipbuilder Meyer Werft will build the new tonnage.

Norwegian Cruise Lines

NCL will build up to three new third generation Freestyle Cruising ships. The cruise line NCL has entered into a contract with Aker Yards S.A. of France to build up to three new cruise ships, totaling 12,600 berths for delivery between 2009 and 2011. The contract price, comprising two firm ships and one option, is 2.17 billion Euros. The ships will each be approximately 150,000 Gross Tons.

The order is firm for two ships for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2009 and the second quarter of 2010, and there is an option for a third sister ship for delivery in the first quarter of 2011. The contract price for each of the first two ships is 735 million Euros, and for the optional third ship is 700 million Euros. This translates to approximately 175,000 Euros per passenger lower berth for the first two cruise resorts and 166,667 Euros for the third option ship.

The new ships, with the project name “F3”, will incorporate a world of new features and will represent NCL’s third generation of Freestyle Cruising ships, a further evolution of NCL’s progressive dismantling of the structure, regimentation, and constraints of the traditional cruise experience. Details of the ship’s design will be released closer to delivery. The cabin mix will be the richest of any NCL ship to date, and will include the feature that 100% of outside staterooms will have private balconies. In total, the ship will have 1,415 balcony staterooms and suites.

Cunard Line

Cunard Line has recently marked the float out of its new ship, the Queen Victoria. That marked the beginning of the final construction stages for the $522 million sister ship to the lines flagship Queen Mary 2 and QE2. Queen Victoria will depart on her Maiden Voyage on Tuesday December 11, 2007.

Royal Caribbean International

Royal Caribbean International`s third and final Freedom-class ship will be named Independence of the Seas. The ship, currently under construction at Aker Yards in Turku, Finland, is set to make her debut in May 2008. She will follow Liberty of the Seas, which makes her entrance into New York City harbour May 3, 2007.

At 160,000 GRT and holding 3,634 guests double-occupancy, Independence of the Seas will share the title of the world`s largest cruise ship with Freedom of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas.

Seabourn Luxury Yachts

Seabourn Luxury Yachts is building two new, ultra luxury Seabourn yachts, for delivery in spring 2009 and 2010. They’ll be built by T. Mariotti, a shipbuilder specializing in beautiful mega-yachts and small, luxury ships. Each of the new ships will feature 225 luxury suites, ninety percent with private verandas.