P&O Cruises Australia, the Australia and New Zealand focused contemporary market unit of Carnival Corporation & plc, will lose a 133,500 gross ton newbuilding on order to sister company Carnival Cruise Line, the company said in a statement.
Instead, Carnival Splendor will be transferred to the Australian company in the spring of 2019.
“A new 133,500-ton cruise ship, which will be the third vessel in the company’s Vista class series, will join the Carnival Cruise Line fleet in late 2019,” Carnival Cruise Line said.
The vessel will be the third Vista class ship in the Carnival Cruise Line fleet. Carnival Splendor, which was built in Italy in 2007, has a gross tonnage of about 113,300.
