Two Carnival UK ships will undergo work at Belfast shipyard Harland & Wolff.
A dry dock contract has been awarded for work to Cunard’s Queen Victoria and P&O Cruises ship Aurora.
The two ships will occupy the Belfast drydock for 33 days in total.
Queen Victoria will be in the yard between May 2-19 as largest cruise ship ever to have drydocked in a UK shipyard.
Aurora will be in Belfast between June 9-23.
The shipyard where Titanic was built said: “The works due to be undertaken to both ships are standard drydocking operations that will give Harland & Wolff the opportunity to demonstrate to the wider cruise industry, its skills, capabilities and expertise in these types of projects.”
Harland & Wolff, group chief executive John Wood said: “When acquiring the assets of Harland and Wolff (Belfast) in December 2019 and in a pre-pandemic period, the cruise industry was one of our key target markets.
“Our facilities are ideally placed to capitalise on these types of large projects whilst we continue servicing our smaller but regular clients.
“We have now secured contracts in four out of our five markets; commercial, cruise & ferry, renewables and energy – we now hope to complete the final milestone of securing a defence contract in the near future.”
Carnival UK vice-president maritime David Varty said: “We are delighted to be able to have these two ships at a UK shipyard with such a long heritage and reputation and we very much look forward to supporting the UK maritime industry and working closely with the Harland & Wolff team on this project.”