Carnival Cruise Line holds coin ceremony for Celebration
Will PayneMarking another milestone toward the completion of Carnival Celebration, the second of Carnival Cruise Line’s new liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered ships, a coin ceremony was held at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland.
The vessel’s captain Vincenzo Alcaras, chief engineer Fabien Gervaise, hotel director Pierre Camilleri and members of Carnival’s new build team joined representatives from Meyer Turku to help weld a special box containing coins, which had been temporarily placed under the ship’s keel at the start of construction.
Celebration will enter service in early November with a 14-day transatlantic voyage from Southampton to its homeport of Miami.
The ship will debut along with Carnival’s redesigned Terminal F at the port, which will be among the first terminals to be shore-power ready in 2023.
Celebration, Mardi Gras and Carnival Jubilee, which is also under construction and set to enter service next year, are part of the cruise line’s new Excel-class.
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