Norwegian Cruise Line names new ship Prima, sending it to Port Canaveral Orlando Sentinel 5/12/2021 Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel Norwegian Cruise Line is feeling a little Italian. The line is naming the first of six planned ships in a new class Norwegian Prima, and it’s going to send it to Port Canaveral. Currently under construction at the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy, the first of what the line has been calling Project Leonardo, and now the Prima class of ships, will debut in 2022, the first new class of ships for the line in 10 years. Some details about the ships were revealed in 2017, notably their size being dialed back from the 165,300-ton Breakaway Plus class ships like Norwegian Escape. Norwegian Prima and its sister ships will be 140,000-ton, 3,300-passenger vessels.