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Launched in the plant of Monfalcone of the Fincantieri the new flagship of Princess Cruises
The ship "Royal Princess" will to make one's debut on June 16, 2013 in the Mediterranean
August 16, 2012
Today in the plant of Monfalcone of the Fincantieri group the cruise ship Royal Princess, the new flagship of the fleet of the company Princess Cruises of the group is launched American Carnival Corporation. Royal Princess will come subordinate to the preparations and therefore delivered in spring 2013, in order to begin on 16 June own crocieristica season in the Mediterranean and successively to move itself in the Caribbean. In the end of this month, while, in the yard of Monfalcone it will begin the construction of a twin ship that will be delivered to the American company in 2014.
The Italian navalmeccanico group has emphasized as with the construction of Royal Princess Fincantieri it consolidates its supremacy in the realization of larger the fleeting ships of the history of the shipbuilding Italian. With its 141,000 tons of tonnage, 330 meters of length and 38 of width, the new unit is in fact the greatest ship never constructed from Fincantieri. Royal Princess counts 1,780 cabins, of which 1,438 equipped of balcony (81% of the total), and can accommodate 3,600 passengers on board, for an ability total of beyond 5.600 people comprised the crew.
From the 1990 today Fincantieri it has constructed 63 cruise ships, of which 13 for the single brand Princess Cruises. Others seven unit are under construction or of next realization in the plants of the group.
To the today's ceremony they were you anticipate for Princess Cruises Alan Buckelew, president and managing director, RAI Caluori, vice president Fleet Operations, and Stuart Hawkins, vice president Newbuilding. For Fincantieri they are taken part, between the others, Gabriele Cocco, director Navi Mercantili, and Carlo De Marco, director of the yard. Godmother of the ceremony has been Victoria Nash, daughter of captain Nick Nash, christened on board of the first Royal Princess.
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Today in the plant of Monfalcone of the Fincantieri group the cruise ship Royal Princess, the new flagship of the fleet of the company Princess Cruises of the group is launched American Carnival Corporation. Royal Princess will come subordinate to the preparations and therefore delivered in spring 2013, in order to begin on 16 June own crocieristica season in the Mediterranean and successively to move itself in the Caribbean. In the end of this month, while, in the yard of Monfalcone it will begin the construction of a twin ship that will be delivered to the American company in 2014.
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