Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest cruise shipping group, expects all its ships to be back in service by early next year, Travel Weekly in the UK reported.

 “The assets are mobile so we do move ships around and even though some destinations may continue to be closed for a period of time, some of those ships may have different itineraries than they would have before. So sometime this year, early next year, we expect to have all the fleet sailing,” President Arnold Donald was quoted by Travel Weekly as saying.

 On 22 March, when the company published the results of the first quarter of its financial year Donald said: "Since resuming guest cruise operations, we delivered more than 2.2 million exceptional vacations while achieving historically high guest satisfaction scores. With 75% of our capacity having resumed guest cruise operations, we are well on our way back to full cruise operations and we are planning to return the balance of the fleet by our summer seasons. “