Zenith: scrapped at Alang in September 2022, under a name nobody knew her by

Zenith can no longer be booked. Croisières de France, the brand that ran her, closed in early 2017, and the hull was broken up at Alang, in India, in the autumn of 2022. She no longer carried her name by then: she was called Singa. This page stays online to say what happened.

The sister, delivered two years later

Meyer Werft delivered her at Papenburg in February 1992, on the plans of Horizon. Forty-seven thousand four hundred and thirteen gross tons, two hundred and eight metres by twenty-nine, twelve decks of which ten were open to guests, 720 cabins, 1,440 to 1,828 people depending on occupancy, 620 crew, two MAN engines of twenty megawatts. She was the second newbuild for Celebrity Cruises.

Three houses in thirty years

Celebrity ran her for fifteen years, Caribbean and Bermuda out of Florida, under the Liberian flag first and the Bahamian flag from 2002. In 2007 she moved to Pullmantur, for the Mediterranean. In 2014 she joined her sister at Croisières de France. In 2017, when the brand closed, she went back to Pullmantur.

An administrative shipwreck

January 2020: she left Pullmantur, bareboat chartered to Peace Boat, the Japanese organisation that circles the world carrying a pacifist message. She never sailed for them. The pandemic pinned her at her moorings, then Peace Boat cancelled its programme in May 2022 after a change of contract with the owner. Sold in July 2022, she became TSM Singapore, then Singa. She arrived off the Alang breaking yard, in India, on 24 September 2022. Her last position signal is dated 29 September. Thirty years, and three names in three months to finish.

What can be booked instead

Nothing replaces exactly a cruise run in French on a mid-sized hull. Ponant holds that ground today with smaller ships and a higher position in the market: the language is the same, the scale and the price are not. Your advisor will tell you what that gap changes in practice.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Zenith was broken up at Alang, in India, in the autumn of 2022. She no longer carried her name by then: she was called Singa.
Sold in July 2022, she became TSM Singapore, then Singa. She arrived off the Alang breaking yard, in India, on 24 September 2022, and her last position signal is dated 29 September.
Because the name still circulates and a 404 answers nobody. We keep it to say what happened and where to turn.
Royal Caribbean launched CDF Croisières de France in September 2007 for the French-speaking market. The brand closed in early 2017 and its two ships went back to Pullmantur, which filed for insolvency in July 2020.
Three names in ten years: Bleu de France, in service from May 2008 until her sale to Saga Cruises in November 2010; Horizon, which arrived in 2012 to replace her; and Zenith, which arrived in 2014.
No, and that is the most common confusion about this ship. She left Pullmantur in January 2020, bareboat chartered to Peace Boat, the Japanese organisation that circles the world carrying a pacifist message. The pandemic pinned her at her moorings and she never carried a single guest for them. Peace Boat cancelled its programme in May 2022 after a change of contract with the owner.
By Meyer Werft, at Papenburg, delivered in February 1992 on the plans of Horizon.
Forty-seven thousand four hundred and thirteen gross tons, two hundred and eight metres by twenty-nine, twelve decks of which ten were open to guests, 720 cabins, 1,440 to 1,828 people depending on occupancy, 620 crew.
Two MAN engines totalling twenty megawatts.
Yes. Same yard, same plans, delivered two years later. She was the second newbuild for Celebrity Cruises, and both hulls ended their careers at the same French brand before going to the breakers in the same autumn, on two continents.
Three. Celebrity Cruises from 1992 to 2007, Pullmantur from 2007, Croisières de France from 2014, then back to Pullmantur in 2017.
Liberian first, Bahamian from 2002.
Fifteen years of Caribbean and Bermuda sailings out of Florida.
None, and that zero is accurate. We measured it.
Your agency, and it alone. Voyages AquaTerra operates under a licence from Quebec's Office de la protection du consommateur, your payments pass through a trust account, and the compensation fund for travel agency clients covers your departure. That applies to the cruise you book instead of this one.