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Premier Cruise Lines sells Star/Ship Majestic.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1996--Premier Cruise Lines (PCL (Printer Command Language) The page description language for HP LaserJet printers. It has become a de facto standard used in many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 5, introduced with the LaserJet III in 1990, also supports Compugraphic's Intellifont scalable fonts. ) has sold one of its three ships, the Star/Ship Majestic, to Bowyers Maritime Corp. for an undisclosed amount.

The Majestic is currently under charter to CTC CTC - Cornell Theory Center  Cruises, which has been sailing the ship, rechristened as The Southern Cross, on itineraries in the Mediterranean and Australia.

Premier chartered the 1,000-passenger ship to CTC in February of 1995. At the time it was sailing from Tampa on three- and four-night cruises to Key West and Mexico. The family cruise line said it was looking for Looking for

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 a larger ship to offer economies of scale for its fleet. Premier operates two other ships which sail from Port Canaveral to Nassau and Port Lucaya in the Bahamas. The Star/Ship Atlantic carries 1,500 passengers and the Star/Ship Oceanic carries 1,800.

According to Jim According to Jim is an American situation comedy television series originally broadcast by ABC. The show premiered with little publicity in October 2001, following the surprise hit comedy My Wife and Kids.  Naik, president of PCL, the cruise line is still looking for capacity to replace the Majestic.

"Our passengers have told us they would sail with us more if we had another itinerary," he said. "The Mexico itinerary was a very good one for us, but we need another ship similar in size to our others to make it work for us."

The cruise line specializes in family cruises and features an extensive children's program with the famous Warner Bros BROS Brothers
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 appearing on every sailing. The company is reporting a profitable year in 1996 and has also released figures which show a 92 percent passenger satisfaction rating.

Premier Cruise Lines, also known as The Big Red Boat, is a subsidiary of Viad Corp (formerly known as The Dial Corp).

CONTACT: Premier Cruise Lines, Ltd.

Brad Parker, 602/207-1049

bparker@viad.com

or

Laurel Thompson, 407/783-5061, ext. 2274
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