{"id":4804,"date":"2018-08-22T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2018-08-22T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:11:36","slug":"carnivals-biggest-new-ship-gets-a-home-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"Carnival’s Biggest New Ship Gets a Home Port"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some great news for our friends on the Space Coast. Keep reading for the full press release from Carnival Cruise Line<\/a>.
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Carnival Cruise Line, the world\u2019s largest cruise operator, has reached an agreement in principle with the Canaveral Port Authority on a new state-of-the-art terminal able to accommodate its new 180,000-ton ship, the largest ever constructed for the line, set to debut in 2020.<\/p>\n

The terms of the agreement are expected to be included on the agenda of the Canaveral Port Authority Board of Commissioners\u2019 meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. If approved, the agreement will clear the way for Carnival Cruise Line\u2019s plans to homeport the as-yet-unnamed 5,286-lower berth ship at Port Canaveral, further bolstering the line\u2019s position as the port\u2019s number one cruise operator.<\/p>\n

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The vessel will offer an array of groundbreaking, never-before-seen features and attractions while also being the first North American-based cruise ship to be powered by Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), part of Carnival Corporation\u2019s \u201cgreen cruising\u201d design platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited about the prospects of homeporting our largest ship at Port Canaveral, a valued business partner for more than 25 years,\u201d said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. \u201cEasily accessible from all over the southeast with excellent facilities and friendly staff, Port Canaveral is one of our most popular and fastest-growing homeports. This fantastic new ship, coupled with our future plans for Port Canaveral, will provide guests with an unparalleled seagoing vacation experience from the minute they arrive. \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Port and Carnival Cruise Line have worked closely for decades building a successful partnership together. We are proud of our partners at Carnival and eager to begin this new chapter in our business relationship,\u201d said Canaveral Port Authority Port Director and CEO Capt. John Murray. \u201cCarnival\u2019s commitment to Port Canaveral demonstrates their confidence in our ability to support one of the world\u2019s most successful cruise brands. We\u2019re excited and looking forward to having their largest and newest class of ship homeported here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Construction of the 180,000-ton cruise ship is scheduled to begin in November 2018 with the official steel-cutting ceremony at the Meyer-Werft shipyard in Turku, Finland. Further ship details, along with itineraries from Port Canaveral, are expected to be announced in 2019.<\/p>\n

The decision to base the new ship on the Space Coast continues a decades-long relationship and reinforces Carnival Cruise Line\u2019s position as Port Canaveral\u2019s number one cruise operator. The line currently has three year-round ships based in Port Canaveral carrying upwards of 650,000 passengers a year. In October, Carnival Cruise Line will also reposition the newer Carnival Breeze to homeport at Port Canaveral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some great news for our friends on the Space Coast. Keep reading for the full press release from Carnival Cruise Line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[301,107,133,488],"class_list":["post-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruises","tag-carnival-breeze","tag-carnival-cruise-line","tag-cruises","tag-port-canaveral"],"fifu_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiercustomtravel.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}