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Carnival orders two new cruise ships to the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Japanese
the units, of 125.000 tons of tonnage, will be introduced in the fleet of the German brand AIDA
November 2, 2011
The crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation & plc has chosen the Japanese yards for the construction of others two cruise ships of 125.000 tons of tonnage that will assign to own AIDA Cruises brand. The American company has emitted the order regarding Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHOS) that it will realize the two units in the ship yard of Nakasaki and will deliver to them in the spring of 2015 and the spring of 1016.
The store clerk constitutes according to new order for the construction of ships emitted from Carnival to MHOS and regards the third and fourth cruise ship that the Japanese shipbuilding society will construct for American group (the first two, of 116.000 tsl, has been Diamond Princess and Sapphire Princess for the brand Princess Cruises). MHOS have specified that the new contract is subordinated to the financing of the two constructions.
The new ships of AIDA Cruises will have a unitary ability to 3.250 passengers and largest will be never constructed for the brand of the dedicated group at the market crocieristico German.
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