Cruise & Maritime Voyages, the British destinational cruise shipping company that will introduce its fifth deep sea vessel next year, will add ports in Wales and Ireland among its turnaround bases next year.

The 63,786 gross ton Columbus, which is currently trading in Australia as Pacific Pearl. Will enter service with CMV in June next year and operate cruises from London Tilbury.

This allows the company to operate the 46,052 gross ton Magellan from Newcastle and Dundee, as it will do this year as well, but also from Liverpool on the west coast of England plus Newport in Wales and Dublin in the Irish Republic.

The 22,080 gross ton Marco Polo will operate two cruises from the Welsh caporal, Cardiff, highlighting the company’s widening range of turnaround ports that now will include ones in Wales and the Irish Republic for the first time in 2017.

The 20,636 gross ton Astor will operate in Germany for CMV’s subsidiary company Transocean Cruises in the summer of 2017 and in Australia for CMV’s own account in the boreal winter season. The 15,614 gross ton Astoria will mainly trade on the French market, but it will also offer eight cruises from London Tilbury in 2017.

Some of the cruises of the company to board in two ports of embarkation, such as Newcastle on the east coast of England and Dundee is Scotland. Similarly, it is possible to sail either from Newport in Wales or Dublin in Ireland or Liverpool and Dublin.

CMV has also increased its footprint in Bristol Avonmouth in the south east of England, Hull on the east coast and in the Scottish ports of Rosyth and Leith near Edinburgh and Greenock near Glasgow.