Bonheur has bought two older cruiseships from Carnival Corp for its subsidiary Fred Olsen Cruise Lines at a total cost of around $37m with the help of cheap finance from the distressed cruise major as it seeks to urgently offload assets.
The Norwegian holding company for the Fred Olsen group has entered into agreements with Carnival's HAL Nederland to acquire the 1,380-berth Amsterdam (built 2000) and 1,404-berth Rotterdam (built 1997), according to TradeWinds analysis of Clarksons Research and Holland America Line data.
