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Article: Carnival Corporation Contracts For Two 102,000-Ton Vessels For Carnival Cruise Lines Unit
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- August 4, 1998
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MIAMI, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) announced today that it has reached an agreement with the Italian shipyard Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A. for the construction of two 102,000-ton cruise ships at a cost of approximately $450 million each for its Carnival Cruise Lines unit.
The two new vessels will have a basis-two capacity of 2,758 and are expected to enter service in the fall of 2002 and the summer of 2003. They represent the fourth and fifth ships in Carnival's highly successful "Destiny- class," which debuted with the launch of the Carnival Destiny, the world's first 100,000-plus-ton cruise ship, in November ...