Seabourn Cruise Commissions 2 Ultra Luxury Ships

Seabourn Cruise sets the luxury travel industry abuzz with two fresh luxury ship orders.

These amazing luxury ships would be constructed in Mariotti Shipyard, Genoa, Italy. The overall cost for each of these water beauties would be close to USD 250 Million Dollars.

A heartening and encouraging news for the luxury travel industry; Seabourn Cruise Line announced recently that it will build two new, ultra luxury ships, for delivery in spring 2009 and 2010. Seabourn, a division of Miami-based Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL)(NYSE: CUK - News), has signed a letter of intent for the project with shipbuilder T. Mariotti S.p.A. of Genoa, Italy. The two beautiful ships will have an all-in U.S. dollar cost of USD 250 million each.

Each of the 32,000-GRT ships will accommodate all guests in 225 luxury suites, ninety percent of which will offer private verandas. Combined, the two vessels will more than double Seabourn's current fleet capacity of 634 berths.

"Our brand has been experiencing more demand in the marketplace than we could fulfill for quite some time now," stated Deborah L. Natansohn, president of Seabourn. "The new ships will allow us to bring the unique Seabourn experience to a larger number of people, particularly the highly affluent and active baby boomer generation just now heading towards the more leisurely years of their lives."

The letter of intent to build the ships is subject to a number of conditions including definitive contracts, financing and other terms.