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Celebrity Century

According to French news reports,  Celebrity Cruises’ 1995-built Celebrity Century will be transferred to Croisières de France (CDF), a French cruise line owned and operated by Royal Caribbean Cruises, in 2015.

CDF is currently sailing the Horizon and will temporarily add sister-ship  Zenith to its fleet in 2014 –  both are ex-Celebrity ships.  It is expected the Century will take the place of the Zenith in 2015 at which point the Zenith is assumed to be heading back to Pullmantur, a Spanish cruise line which manages CDF and which is also owned by Royal Caribbean.

With the arrival of the Century, CDF is said to be hoping to spend longer days and overnights in the bigger ports, and plans to make its first foray into Northern Europe, carrying an estimated 120,000 passengers in 2015.

Celebrity has so far offered no comment on these reports.  As of this date, the 1800-passenger Century is scheduled to sail with Celebrity at least until April of 2015 and has itineraries that range from  Caribbean and  Alaska to Australia/New Zealand and the Far East.