Carnival Cruise Lines assigns to Fincantieri the work of restyling of the ship Carnival Destiny



The American crocieristica company Carnival Cruise Lines has assigned estern to Fincantieri a new store clerk for restyling work to realize to beginning 2013 on the ship Carnival Destiny, with an investment of the value of 155 million dollars.

Draft of the more imposing restructure never carried out on a ship of the fleet of the company of the group Carnival Corporation & plc and so wide and will have been extended to carry to the creation of a completely new ship that will call Carnival Sunshine.

Returning note the emission of the Costa Crociere order, also it company of the Carnival group, has specified that still the yard of the Italian company is not decided navalmeccanica in which the work, that 49 days will last, from the February to April 2013 will be executed.

Carnival Destiny, that it has a tonnage of 101.300 tons, can accommodate 2,642 passengers and 1,040 members of the crew. The ship is constructed in 1996 from the same Fincantieri and is long 230 meters, wide 35,5 meters and has the maximum speed of 22,4 knots.

With this new store clerk salt to beyond 25 billion euros the total figure of the investments carried out from the group Carnival Corporation & plc in Italy from 1990 today for the construction of 64 ships, as well as for the modernization of other ships, pertaining to the following marks: Costa Crociere, Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises, Cunard, Seabourn, P&O Cruises Australia, Iberocruceros.

For the single Costa Crociere brand the investment is piled to 5,8 billion euros, about 23% of the total figure. The investments of Coast regard in all 14 constructed ships or order, as well as the modernization of other ships, beginning from 1990, in the Italian yards of Fincantieri, T. Mariotti and Saint George of the Port.

"The work of assigned restyling today - it has declared Pier Luigi Foschi, president and managing director of Costa Crociere and member of the executive board of the group American - confirms Carnival Corporation & plc as one of the greater ones, if not the main one, between the foreign companies that they invest in Italy. As a company Italian of the group Carnival Corporation & plc, Costa Crociere is proud and pleased who this new store clerk is assigned once again to an Italian yard, Fincantieri, with which he is Costa Crociere who Carnival boasts a collaboration profitable and consolidated already from several years. During the last few years, the investments put into effect by Costa Crociere and the other companies of the group have generated a huge positive economic impact on the Italian economy, carrying job for thousands of workers and hundred of Italian enterprises".

"Enormously we are satisfied of this important new store clerk - the managing director of Fincantieri has commented, Giuseppe Bono - than confirmation our intuition to upgrade the activities in the section of the refitting and the refurbishment, in continuous expansion. Destiny, from we constructed, has been the prototype very 20 ships that we have developed and realized afterwards. It is therefore for us pride reason to be it are chosen once again from friends of Carnival that, also through Costa Crociere, continues to bet on Fincantieri and Italy, consolidating so an historical relationship of partnership, than never it has not been interrupted and that we are sure will continue in future also. Carnival and Costa, in fact - it has emphasized Bono - remain for us and for system-Country of the exceptional and irrenounceable investor. I want to not only remember that the Carnival group has invested in Italy beyond 25 billion euros, of which beyond the half in the past decade, ordering to ships to Fincantieri for all its brands, and allowing with Fincantieri to become world leader in the field, but of feeding a force job that between directed and induced has reached beyond 30 thousand people, contributing moreover to the birth and the development of thousands of small and averages enterprises highly specialistic and characterized that they constitute indispensable woven the connecting one in the territories where the sites of the Fincantieri are located. In fact, the investments of Carnival are still more essential things for the tramutano Country as in job that is carried out in Italy".