Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd (RCL) is pulling the plug on its SkySea Cruise Line joint venture with Chinese state-owned vacation giant Ctrip.
SkySea’s only vessel, the 72,000-gt Golden Era (ex-Celebrity Century, built 1995), will be offloaded to TUI’s Marella Cruises, with delivery expected in December 2018.
“After the sale of Golden Era, it is expected that SkySea will wind down its business operations before the end of 2018,” RCL said.
