Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV), the rapidly expanding UK based destinational cruise line, plans to introduce two ships to the UK market and one in Germany in the next two years, Travel Weekly reports on its website.

The first ship in the UK should arrive in May next year and be of the same size as the Columbus, which is of 63,785 gross tons and which accommodates 1,250 passengers. An announcement about the vessel's identity should be made before the end of this month.

Ship number two is due to enter the German market, also next year, while the second ship to the UK is planned to commence operations in 2021, CEO and Chairman Christian Verhounig said, according to Travel Weekly.

CMV’s 2019 cruise programme has been completely sold out and 40% of its inventory for next year has also been sold at this point, the report said.

The company added ship number six in its fleet earlier this spring, when it introduced the 1993 built Vasco da Gama, formerly Pacific Eden on P&O Cruises Australia, on the Australian and German markets.

CMV operates its ships on time charter from a Greek principal, which is also in charge of technical management and crewing of the vessels. All ships in the CMV fleet are second hand ones and given the rapid pace of planned expansion of its fleet, these ships too will be second hand acquisitions.