US operator Carnival Cruise Line has confirmed its plans to grow its fleet by two additional ships by 2023.
Carnival will take delivery of a ship that had previously been assigned to sister line AIDA Cruises that will arrive in late 2023, as well as take ownership of Costa Magica from another of its European sister lines, Costa Cruises. The latter vessel will undergo drydocking, renaming and Carnival-branded conversion and is scheduled to join the fleet by mid-2022.
These two ships are in addition to the new capacity growth represented by Mardi Gras, Carnival's first Excel-class LNG-powered ship, which starts sailing from Port Canaveral on July 31 and sister ship Carnival Celebration, which will be delivered and sail from Miami starting in late 2022.
The addition of these four ships will bring the Carnival fleet to 27 by year-end 2023.
