The American cruise group Royal Caribbean Cruises has signed agreements with the French shipyard Chantiers de the Atlantique of Saint Nazaire which include orders for the construction of two cruise ships of the new "Discovery" class, whose characteristics and options have not yet been disclosed for a further four naval units. The first new ship will be taken over in 2029 and the second in 2032.

In addition, Celebrity River Cruises, the shipping company of the U.S. group, has announced that it will equip itself of ten new ships with the aim of increasing the number of new ships to 20 by 2031 number of vessels used on European rivers and canals.

Meanwhile, Royal Caribbean Cruises has concluded its annual financial year 2025 with record financial results starting from revenues that are amounted to $17.94 billion, an increase of +8.8% on the previous year, of which 12.52 billion generated by the Cruise sales (+8.9%) and 5.42 billion from on-board sales of ships (+8.7%). New historical peaks have also been reached the values of EBITDA, operating profit and of net profit, which amounted to 7.03 billion (+15.4%), $4.91 billion (+19.5%) and $4.29 billion (+48,2%). A new all-time high was also recorded the number of passengers embarked on the ships of the group that has reached 9.45 million units (+10.3%).

A new absolute record was also set by the number of passengers accommodated on the ships of the fleet in just quarter quarter of 2025, amounting to 2.48 million units, with a increase of +6.7% over the same period of the previous year and an increase of more than 18 thousand units compared to the previous one Quarterly historical peak achieved in the period July-September of 2025. In addition, in the last quarter of 2025, recorded values of the main items of the income statement for this time of year. Revenues have increased amounted to $4.26 billion (+13.3%), of which $2.94 billion produced by cruise sales (+13.0%) and 1.32 billion from sales on board ships (+14.0%). The value of the operating margin gross was 1.48 billion (+20.9%), that of profit operating income of €933 million (+49.5%) and net profit of $762 million (+36.3%).

Commenting on these results, the president and director delegate of the American group, Jason Liberty, announced that for 2026 is expected to be "another year of significant financial performance, with revenues and profits growing to two figures".