Princess Cruises has announced that beginning in November 2008, the 77,441 GT, 1,950-berth Dawn Princess, built in 1997, will become its second ship based year-round in Australia. Her 1995-built sister Sun Princess already arrived in Australia this month to take up year-round residence there, but while Dawn was already scheduled to reposition to Australia next [...]
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Thursday, 21 June 2007
Peter Ratcliffe to Retire from P&O Princess
P&O Princess Cruises International CEO and Carnival Corporation & plc executive director Peter Ratcliffe has announced that he will retire as CEO of P&O Princess on his 60th birthday, 6 March 2008.
P&O Princess Cruises International is the largest division of Carnival Corporation & plc, encompassing the Cunard Line, Ocean Village, P&O Cruises, P&O [...]
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Pacific Star to Pullmantur
In a surprise announcement, P&O Cruises Australia announced last week that Pacific Star has been sold to Pullmantur Cruises and will leave the fleet in March 2008.
This was a particular surprise because P&O is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc while Pullmantur is part of arch-rival Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Moreover, Carnival recently announced [...]
