Carnival certainly believes in making waves. Victory will make her maiden voyage in August this year, and her two sisters will emerge from the Kvaerner Masa shipyard in Helsinki, Finland, and the 82,000-ton series will continue with Conquest and in 2002 and 2003. The Paradise, like Elation, was also built at the Kvaerner Masa shipyard while the Carnival Triumph is being built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Trieste, Italy.
Carnival is the largest cruise line in the world based on passengers carried.
It currently operates 14 vessels with cruises to the Caribbean, Bahamas, Mexican Riviera, Panama Canal, Hawaii, Alaska and Canada.