MSC Cruises has taken in delivery new Precious flagship MSC



This morning in the ship yard of Saint-Nazaire in France, during the traditional "Ceremony Flag", new Precious cruise ship MSC is officially delivered in the hands of the owner of MSC Cruises, Gianluigi Aponte, directly by Laurent Castaing, general manager of STX France. The shipowner, in its turn, has then entrusted the new flagship of the fleet to commander Giuliano Bossi.

To the ceremony they were you anticipate the French minister for the industrial Renewal, Arnaud Montebourg, the minister of the Transports and the marine economy, Frédéric Cuvillier, the ambassador of the Republic of Korea in France, Hye Min Lee, the mayor of Saint Nazaire, Joël Batteux, and the general manager of MSC Cruises France, Belgium and Luxemburg, Erminio Eschena. Al term, the honor to cut the tape is touched to Alexa Aponte Vago, vice-president of group MSC, with the bottle of champagne that has gone to break on the keel of the ship.

"We are here today - the MSC managing director has declared Cruises, Pierfrancesco Vago - in order to celebrate MSC Precious, the twelfth unit of fleet MSC Cruises and the fourth ship of the Class Fantasy, whose arrival carries MSC Cruises to being the third greater company of cruises of the world. Thanks to our the long-lasting and effective collaboration with yards STX France, we have been able to reach, year after year all our objectives. Precious MSC will be a evolven ship, with on board exceptional characteristics only and services, as the MSC Yacht club, improved ulteriorly regarding the same service offered from the other flagships. I believe that Precious MSC you carry the experience in cruise to reach levels that graze the perfection. Our new unit represents the coronamento of a slowly industrial imposing gives beyond six billions of euro started in 2003, that it has carried the company to construct ten new ships in little less ten-year-old".

"Increase and development: two words - general manager STX France has confirmed, Laurent Castaing - in order to shortly describe to the extraordinary evolution of MSC Cruises from when it has begun our collaboration to the dawn of its adventure in the field cruising. We are proud of being involved in every phase of this escalation. In the past decade, every ship of fleet MSC has taken life in these basins: the testimony of the confidence that MSC Cruises has placed in our yard year after year. Every new class of ships that we have devised entirety is evolven reaching elevated standard more and more in terms of comfort, possible technology and safety. Precious MSC does not make exception, is she in the seas the ship that boasts the most recent innovations in each of these areas".

MSC Precious is long 333 meters, wide 38 meters and hung 140,000 tons. It can accommodate 4,345 passengers and it is able to travel until a speed of 23 knots. Its design is once again yields of the work of pluripremiati naval architects De Jorio International Design.

Al term of the Ceremony Flag, Precious MSC has sailed for the inaugural cruise with stages to Lisbon (Portugal), Cadice (Spain), Casablanca (Morocco), Valencia (Spain) and Marseilles (France). On 22 March the new flagship will arrive in the port of Genoa, where it is attended for the ceremony of official baptism that will happen the next day.