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Passenger vessel
Operated by Carnival Cruise Line
Photo: Yankeesman312 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#1,870
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest passenger vessel
#2
of 490 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 29 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Carnival Venezia is a Venice-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Originally intended to serve the Chinese market, she debuted as Costa Venezia for sister brand Costa Cruises in Shanghai on 18 May 2019. At 135,225 gross tonnage (GT) and with a capacity of 4,208 passengers, she became the largest ship commissioned for the Costa fleet upon her delivery.
In 2023, amid a corporate fleet reshuffling in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the industry, Costa Venezia was transferred to Carnival under a new sub-brand named "Costa as Carnival" operating as "Carnival Fun Italian Style". The new concept was designed to integrate Costa Venezia and sister ship Costa Firenze into Carnival in a bid to boost domestic American capacity after the cruise line had sold numerous older vessels while Costa contended with operational challenges in its core markets. In March 2023, she was officially renamed Carnival Venezia during her pre-delivery renovation and debuted for Carnival the following May as the lead vessel for the new sub-fleet of Venice-class ships.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 135,500 gross tons, Carnival Venezia is the 1,870th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 23 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 2nd by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Carnival Venezia is the 110th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 passenger vessels flying the The Bahamas flag, of which none is larger than Carnival Venezia.
Carnival Venezia was built in 2019, making it 7 years old. It is one of 1,261 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 29,000 GT; within it this ship is the 114th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 226 vessels to Fincantieri, with a median tonnage of 54,655 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 323.0 m overall, Carnival Venezia is 262.0 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record, with a beam of 37.2 m and a draft of 8.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9801689 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2015 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2019.
Its IMO number, 9801689, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 6×3 + 8×2 = 149 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among passenger vessels
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MS «Snarveien» | — | 232,000 |
| Carnival Venezia (this ship) | 2019 | 135,500 |
| Queen Elizabeth 2 | 1969 | 70,327 |
| MV Stena Britannica | 2010 | 64,039 |
| Spirit of France | 2011 | 47,592 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.

MSC Seaview
2018 · 154,000 GT · Malta

Sky Princess
2019 · 145,000 GT · Bermuda

Costa Firenze
2020 · 135,156 GT · Italy

Carnival Horizon
2018 · 133,500 GT · Panama

Carnival Panorama
2019 · 133,500 GT

MS Nieuw Statendam
2018 · 99,500 GT · Netherlands

Viking Orion
2018 · 47,861 GT · Norway

Viking Jupiter
2019 · 47,800 GT · Norway
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Carnival Venezia on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Yankeesman312, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.