Marella Cruises, the UK focused contemporary market unit in the TUI AG group, plans to introduce a fifth ship by 2023, travel weekly reports on its website.

“By 2023 we’re expecting that to increase to five ships. We will probably share some more details later on this year on that,” Chris Hackney, Managing Director of Marella Cruises was quoted by Travel Weekly as saying.

The company currently has a fleet of four ships. Marella Discovery and Marella Discover 2 were built in 1995-96 for Royal Caribbean International and Marella Explorer plus Marella Explorer 2 for Celebrity Cruises. 

They are of the same vintage as the two other ships in the Marella Cruises’ fleet and all four are in the about 70,000 to 77,000 gross ton size range.

The company axed the 1986 built Marella Dream and the 1983 built Marella Celebration as the result of the pandemic.