Har yanzu masana'antar yawon shakatawa na New Orleans ta sami harbin tattalin arziki a hannu a yau lokacin da Carnival Cruise Lines ta sanar da cewa tana motsa sabon jirgin ruwa mai girma - Fasinja Carnival Triumph 2,758 - zuwa Babban Sauki na gaba.
The Triumph ya maye gurbin Fantasy mai fasinja 2,056, wanda Carnival ta sanar jiya yana ƙaura daga New Orleans zuwa Mobile na dindindin a faɗuwar gaba bayan an kafa shi a can tun lokacin da wani jirgin ruwa mai saukar ungulu ya rufe kogin Mississippi na ɗan lokaci a watan Yuli. A lokacin bushewa a cikin watan Satumba na wannan Satumba, Fantasy zai sami haɓaka Juyin Halitta na Nishaɗi, gami da sabon wurin shakatawa na WaterWorks aqua tare da zane mai tsayin ƙafa 300, babban bene na rana kawai da kuma faɗaɗa dangi da wuraren shakatawa.
Sauya babban nasara ga Fantasy na iya nufin ƙarin masu yawon buɗe ido 50,000 don New Orleans kowace shekara, in ji New Orleans Times-Picayune. Tun daga watan Nuwamba, 2009, jiragen ruwa na Triumph na kwanaki hudu za su tashi daga New Orleans ranar Alhamis zuwa Cozumel, jiragen ruwa na kwanaki biyar za su bar Litinin da Asabar zuwa Cozumel da Progreso, Mexico, kuma kwanaki bakwai za su tashi ranar Asabar don ko dai Belize City, Roatan. , da Cozumel ko Key West, Freeport da Nassau.
Sanarwar Carnival alama ce ta kashe kuɗi tsakanin fasinjojin jirgin ruwa a cikin New Orleans, wanda ya kasance tashar jiragen ruwa zuwa jiragen ruwa guda huɗu daga layi uku lokacin da Hurricane Katrina ya tashi a ranar 29 ga Agusta, 2005, in ji Associated Press. Baya ga Fasinja 2,974 na Carnival Conquest da 2,052-fasinja Sensation, Norwegian Cruise Lines yana da 1,754-fasinja Norwegian Dream da Royal Caribbean yana da 1,950-fasinja Grandeur na Tekuna a tashar jiragen ruwa kuma.
Kimanin fasinjoji 734,000 ne suka hau tare da tashi daga cikin jiragen ruwa a New Orleans a cikin 2004, shekara kafin Katrina. Kakakin tashar jiragen ruwa Chris Bonura ya shaida wa AP cewa "A yanzu haka muna fuskantar manyan 400s - kusa da 500,000."
Yaren mutanen Norway ya dawo da wani babban jirgi mai girma, Ruhun Norwegian mai fasinja 1,999. Duk da cewa Royal Caribbean ta sanar a cikin 2006 za ta ci gaba da tashi daga New Orleans, hakan bai taɓa faruwa ba.
