One of Norwegian Cruise Line's biggest ships to move to Florida's Port Canaveral
Florida's Port Canaveral soon will be home to another giant cruise ship.
Norwegian Cruise Line on Tuesday said its 4,248-passenger Norwegian Escape would move to Port Canaveral in late 2020 to operate five- and seven-night voyages to the Caribbean.
The ship currently sails out of New York.
At 165,157 tons, Escape is one of Norwegian's three largest vessels and the 12th-largest cruise ship from any line.
It'll be the largest Norwegian ship ever to sail out of Port Canaveral.
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Port Canaveral already is home to the world's fourth-largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's 225,282-ton Oasis of the Seas. Oasis soon will be replaced in Port Canaveral by an even larger Royal Caribbean ship, Harmony of the Seas.
At 226,963 tons, Harmony is the world's second-biggest cruise ship.
Norwegian said Escape's sailings from Port Canaveral would include itineraries in both the Eastern and Western Caribbean. Ports of call will include Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; Tortola, British Virgin Islands; Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas; Cozumel, Mexico; George Town, Cayman Islands; and Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
Escape also will sail two four-day Bahamas cruises with stops at Nassau, Freeport and Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas.
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