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Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio, a review of Symphony of the Seas this week, a Royal Caribbean

Oasis Class ship, and staff writer Richard Sims here with Cruise News, jumping right to him now.

Hey, Richard.

Hey, Doug Parker.

Kicking things off with Carnival Cruise Line getting kind of new cruise ships this month.

More accurately, two new to Carnival Cruise Line ships, I think, because this is sort of a

weird story. It involves a cruise line division going away and her ships being transferred,

and yet in the grand scheme of things, not much is changing at all.

So years ago, and, you know, I may get some of these details wrong because it's a very

complicated history, to be quite honest, but Carnival Corporation bought P&O Princess

Cruises, and part of that eventually was broken off to be P&O Australia.

Until recently, P&O Australia had three ships.

Now, one of those ships, the Pacific Explorer, has been sold to Resorts World and will be sailing over in Asia.

The other two ships, the Pacific Adventure and the Pacific Encounter, are being absorbed into Carnival Cruise Line,

sort of the same way they did with the two Costa ships a year or so ago.

And remember, this is all, all of these different cruise lines are under the Carnival Corporate umbrella.

You really, you know, if you really want to dive into this,

go to Carnival Corporate's page and look at like all of the fleets that operate under the umbrella

of the Carnival Corporation. Anyway, here's the thing that's kind of interesting about this.

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