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With Cruise & Maritime Voyages revealed now as only a marketing and sales company, not a ship owning company, and as a result, ownership of the CMV branded fleet of vessels under a myriad of separate companies under the umbrella of the Global Maritime Group based in Greece, all the CMV branded ships have now been sold.

The resulting revenue of only $USD39m for five ships is insignificant compared to the cost of buying or building a similar fleet or even one small ship under normal non-COVID-19 circumstances, with some former CMV branded vessels moving on to new lives, but others sadly heading to the scrapyard, so check these out: – 

  • Vasco Da Gama – $USD10.2million: built for Holland America in 1992 as the Statendam, transferred in 2015 to P&O Australia as the Pacific Eden, bought by Portugal-based Mystic Cruises/Mystic Invest.  Mystic says that the Vasco da Gama will serve the British and German markets under Mystic Cruises ownership, with Mario Ferreira, president of Mystic Invest Holding, parent company of Mystic Cruises saying, “Our company believes in offering an intimate, safe and great value for money experience to our guests, we believe that the Vasco da Gama will be a great addition to our fleet of ocean cruise ships”.
  • Columbus – $USD5.3m: ordered by Sitmar Cruises as the Fair Majesty, but became the Star Princess, transferred to P&O UK Arcadia, Ocean Village and the P&O Australia as Pacific Pearl, before joining CMV in 2017, bought by Greece/Cyprus based Seajets, use unknown. 
  • Magellan – $USD3.4m: built in 1985 Carnival Cruise Line as the Holiday, in 2009, transferred to Spanish IberoCruceros the Grand Holiday and sold to a Greek related CMV ship ownership company in 2017, bought by Seajets, use unknown. 
  • Astor – $USD1.7m: built in 1987 in Germany, operating with British guests, sold to become the Fedor Dostoyevskiy, then in 1996 bought by TransOcean Tours and chartered to CMV operating in Australia, then back to TransOcean Tours, and was due to leave in May 2021, renamed as Jules Verne to sail for CMVs new French brand, but now sold for scrap.
  • Marco Polo – $USD2.8m: the grand old dame of the fleet, built in 1965 as the Aleksandr Pushkin for sailing from Leningrad to Montreal route, cruising under charter agreements, with in 1991, sold to Orient Lines and renamed Marco Polo, then in 2008 sold to Greece-based Global Maritime Group, who chartered her to Germany-based Transocean Tours and then CMV, but now sold for scrap.

A report by John Alwyn-Jones