Before long, we could be adding yet ANOTHER cruiseline to the already busy Port Canaveral. Currently THREE MAJOR cruise lines (Disney, Royal Caribbean and Carnival) call Port Canaveral “home” year round (each cruiseline with two ships) while Holland America, Norwegian and a few other cruise lines use Port Canaverl seasonally or as a port of call.

But if a new cruise company called Paradise Caribbean Cruise Lines has their way, beginning in November 2006, there will now be some mini-cruises available to cruisers. They will offer 2 night cruises to the Bahamas and 1 night cruises “to nowhere”. This 38 year old ship is formerly the Norwegian Starward and has been renamed to Orient Queen. Currently she is in the Mediterranean and operated by a middle East cruise line — Abou Mehri Cruises.

The Orient Queen is expected to operate out of Cruise Terminal 3, one of the small terminals on the south side of the port, near Jetty Park.

By comparison, this ship will be a miniature next to the giants already there. Orient Queen wieghs in at 16,000 tons, while the other cruise ships range in size from 74,000-138,000 tons.

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