AIDA Cruises, the German contemporary market unit in Carnival Corp & plc group, will send AIDAbella as the first ship of the line to Shanghai for year round operations.
The company, which started operations in 1996, with just one ship, has become the largest cruise operator in the German speaking market. “Now we are about to take another important step and export our successful concept – Made in Germany - with AIDAbella to China, the strongest growing cruise market in the world,” said Felix Eichhorn, President of the Rostock based company, in a statement.
The ship was built in 2008 and it can accommodate 2,050 passengers.
