Carnival Corporation’s ongoing disposal of older ships continues with the sale of the 55,900-gt cruiseship Pacific Eden (built 1993) to UK-based Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV).
In a statement released this week, CMV said that Carnival Corp will hand over the ship in Singapore in April 2019, where it will undergo a short refit before being repositioned to Europe.
TradeWinds understands that the ship will spend the summer months operating for CMV’s German cruise subsidiary Transocean Cruises. CMV will operate the ship directly for the rest of the year, when it will be based out of the Australian port of Fremantle.
The company is inviting its customers to vote on the ship’s future name via an online poll on its website. The names of four famous explorers, Vasco da Gama, Pytheas, Henry Hudson and Amerigo Vespucci, have been shortlisted.
CMV is wholly-owned by the Athens-based Global Maritime Group, which handles the technical management of the current four-ship fleet.
Two of these ships, the 46,000-gt Magellan (built 1985) and the 63,800-gt Columbus (built 1989), were purchased from Carnival Corp in recent years.
The Fincantieri-built Pacific Eden was built as Statendam for Carnival subsidiary Holland America and was transferred across to Carnival Australia in 2015.
