The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners approved a new lease for
Carnival Corp. at Port Miami that stipulates the Carnival Vista will use the
port after it is delivered next year.
The deal calls for Carnival Vista to sail from Port Miami
for 24 months out of its first three years in service. Carnival had not
previously disclosed where Vista would sail from after its inaugural series of
cruises next summer in the Mediterranean.
Carnival’s newest ship, Carnival Breeze, currently sails
from Miami. Its next most recent ship, Carnival Magic, debuted in Galveston, Texas,
after a European summer launch.