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In the yard of Ancona of the Fincantieri luxury is launched the extra cruise ship the Soleal
The unit will be delivered to the French Companies du in June next Ponant
December 6, 2012
Today in the ship yard of Ancona of the Fincantieri group it is launched the Soleal, extra cruise ship luxury ordered from the French shipowner Companies du Ponant of the Bridgepoint group to which it will be delivered in June next ( on 21 September 2011). To the ceremony they were you anticipate, between the others, Jean-Emmanuel Sauvee, managing director and founder of Companies du Ponant, Véronique Saade, added general manager of the company and, for Fincantieri, the director Navi Mercantili, Gabriele Cocco, and the director of the yard of Ancona, Giovanni Stecconi.
The Soleal is long 142 meters, wide 18 meters, it will have a cruise speed of 16 knots and will be able to accommodate until beyond 260 passengers and 139 members of the crew. The new unit, that it will fly French flag, is the third binoculars after the Austral and the Boreal, the two ships "undermine-cruise respective" delivered in May 2010 and in April 2011. Al pairs of the binoculars, has the most advanced technologies in topic of environmental protection and for via of the reduced dimensions it will be able to reach ports and inaccessible destinations to greater units. The preparation of the internal ones will be conceived "on a human scale" and with extreme cure of the details.
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