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MSC Cruises decides the withdrawal from the activity of ship MSC Melody
It is the smallest and old unit of the fleet of the company
January 8, 2013
MSC Cruises has decided the withdrawal from the activity of MSC Melody, the ship of 35.000 tons of tonnage that is the smallest and old unit of the fleet of the company and that it has constituted the trait of union between the carried out crocieristica activity until the beginning of the slid decade from the group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) in way to ago marginare regarding Core business of the transport of the container and the new phase of development of the branch of the cruises started from the Genevan group ten years ( of 8 May 2002).
MSC Cruises has explained that the decision is framed in the within of the initiatives of the company in order to offer to the customers innovative services and in order to continually improve comfort, elegance and technology of the ships of own fleet.
MSC Melody, that it is constructed in 1982 and christen Atlantic, has entered to take part of the MSC fleet Cruises in 1997. The unit, long 205 meters and wide 27, has an ability to 1.250 passengers and beyond 500 members of the crew.
We remember that next 23 March to Genoa will be christened Precious MSC, the fourth flagship of class "Fantasy" of MSC Cruises.
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