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tourism industry

AIDA Cruises

Headquarters: Rostock
Founded: 1960
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Wolfgang Pehlemann · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

937,307

Summed over 11 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What AIDA Cruises is

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AIDA Cruises is a German cruise line founded in the early 1960s and organized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Costa Cruises, which in turn belongs to Carnival Corporation. Based in Rostock, Germany, AIDA Cruises caters primarily to the German-speaking market; as seagoing "club resorts", AIDA ships have on-board amenities and facilities designed to attract younger, more active vacationers. As of September 2023, the cruise line operates 11 ships.
AIDA Cruises has been Carnival-owned since 2003.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: tourism industry
Legal form: public company
Country of registration: Germany
Headquarters: Rostock
Formed in: —
Founded: 1960
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 54.0833, 12.1333

Ships on record here: 12
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 15.1 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1996
Newest vessel on record: 2021
Largest vessel by tonnage: 183,200
Average tonnage: 85,210
Market share: —
Parent company: Carnival Corporation
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 12 vessels this registry attributes to AIDA Cruises. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Cruise ship11

Passenger vessel1

By flag state

Italy12

By shipbuilder

Meyer Werft8

Kvaerner Masa-Yards1

Meyer Wismar1

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries1

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 3 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	1	125,572	10
2018	1	183,200	11
2019	0	—	11
2020	0	—	11
2021	1	—	12
2022	0	—	12
2023	0	—	12
2024	0	—	12
2025	0	—	12
2026	0	—	12

Vessel records

Ships on record

12 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
AIDAnova	9781865	Cruise ship	Italy	2018	183,200	200,000	337.0 m	Meyer Werft
AIDAperla	9636967	Cruise ship	Italy	2017	125,572	9,200	299.9 m	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Aidaprima	9636955	Cruise ship	Italy	2016	125,000	9,200	299.9 m	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery
AIDAblu	9398888	Cruise ship	Italy	2010	71,304	7,889	253.3 m	Meyer Werft
AIDAsol	9490040	Cruise ship	Italy	2011	71,304	7,889	253.3 m	Meyer Werft
AIDAstella	9601132	Cruise ship	Italy	2013	71,304	7,889	253.0 m	Meyer Werft
AIDAmar	9490052	Cruise ship	Italy	2012	71,100	7,757	252.0 m	Meyer Werft
AIDAbella	9362542	Cruise ship	Italy	2008	69,203	6,100	251.9 m	Meyer Werft
AIDAdiva	9334856	Cruise ship	Italy	2007	68,500	6,100	251.0 m	Meyer Werft
AIDAvita	9221554	Cruise ship	Italy	2002	42,289	4,232	202.8 m	Meyer Wismar
AIDAcara	9112789	Passenger vessel	Italy	1996	38,531	3,752	193.3 m	Kvaerner Masa-Yards
AIDAcosma	9781877	Cruise ship	Italy	2021	—	—	337.0 m	Meyer Werft

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How AIDA Cruises compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 12 vessels attributed to it here, AIDA Cruises is the 74th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Germany is the country of registration for 147 commercial operators in this directory, among which AIDA Cruises ranks 9th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 640 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Germany.

Founded in 1960, AIDA Cruises is 66 years old. This directory holds 74 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q293469, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from AIDA Cruises on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.