In the yard of Fincantieri to Monfalcone the cruise ship Regal Princess is launched



Yesterday in the ship yard of Fincantieri to Monfalcone the cruise ship Regal Princess, the new flagship of the fleet of Princess Cruises is launched (Carnival group). The unit will be delivered to the shipowner in the spring of 2014 once concluded the phase of preparation of the ship. The twin unit Royal Princess, launched 16th August and now in phase of preparation near the plant isontino, will take the sea in the first half of this year.

To the ceremony of launch of the Regal Princess they were you anticipate for Princess Cruises RAI Caluori, executive vice president Fleet Operations, and Stuart Hawkins, vice president Newbuilding, and for Fincantieri between the others, Enrico Buschi, operating general manager, and Carlo De Marco, director of the yard. Godmother of the launch has been Carolyn Spencer Brown, director of "Cruise Critic",

Regal Princess, of 141.000 tons of tonnage, is long 330 meters, wide 38 meters and is the greatest ship never constructed from Fincantieri. The unit is equipped of 1.780 cabins, of which 1,438 with balcony (81% of the total), is will be able to accommodate 3,600 passengers on board, for an ability total of beyond 5.600 people comprised the crew.

Fincantieri has emphasized that Regal Princess, "innovative prototype of a class of ships that looks to tomorrow, as its binoculars are characterized in the first place by a new progettuale approach "to future test" ("future-proof designs"), not only for the layout and the performances of vanguard, but also because recepisce all the most recent regulations in matter of great cruise ships. These ships - it has explained the navalmeccanico group - will represent a new technological point of reference to European and world-wide level for the highest performances and the high quality of technical solutions of vanguard, and constitute the test better than innovation and cure of the relationship with a customer as the Carnival group, leader of market, is unavoidable levers in order to face a phase of crisis as that current one. Between the bench marks of this tendency there are I use it rational of the spaces, with the objective to avoid every waste of tonnage that would carry to an increase of the operating costs, and the energy saving for the reduction of the emissions in air and water. The ship will be able to adapt to all the possible profiles of cruise, operating from Alaska to Australia, also in areas to limited navigation for the safeguard of the atmosphere".