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I looked up the new gross tonnage of the rebuilt CARNIVAL SUNSHINE (ex-CARNIVAL DESTINY) and noticed to my great surprise that she has become 20% smaller!
Old GT: 101,353New GT: 82,897
This seems very unlikely to me, as a lot of extra decks were added, so the GT should have gone up, unless a lot of other spaces were opened up, but again, that also seems unlikely to me.Did Equasis make a mistake here? Does anyone have the "real" new gross tonnage perhaps?
Rich
PamSorry Rich I took so long to type you posted in the meantime I'll leave the link as maybe the 8 & 5 have been swapped by someone there.
[ 06-03-2013: Message edited by: PamM ]
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