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Letter of attempts SNCM - STX France for the construction of four ferries
the new ships will have a propulsion to gas
April 4, 2014
After the letter of attempts signed two weeks ago from ship yard STX France with MSC Cruises for the construction of two cruise ships of 167.600 tons of tonnage, long 315 meters and wide 43 meters that will be able to accommodate 7,250 people of which 5,700 passengers, with delivery in the 2017 and the 2019 and option for the construction of others two unit, the French shipbuilding society have signed an analogous agreement with the compatriot Maritime Société National Run Méditerranée (SNCM) for the construction of four ferries with propulsion to gas.
As for that which signed with MSC Cruises, the letter of attempts with SNCM will be translate in the subscription of a specific contract after the predisposition of the credit scheme of the new constructions. If in the first case this would have to happen without difficulties, for SNCM seems more difficult to approach new financings, although it is the company that the same STX France is participated by the French State, date the precarious economic situation in which it pours SNCM.
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After the letter of attempts signed two weeks ago from ship yard STX France with MSC Cruises for the construction of two cruise ships of 167.600 tons of tonnage, long 315 meters and wide 43 meters that will be able to accommodate 7,250 people of which 5,700 passengers, with delivery in the 2017 and the 2019 and option for the construction of others two unit, the French shipbuilding society have signed an analogous agreement with the compatriot Maritime Société National Run Méditerranée (SNCM) for the construction of four ferries with propulsion to gas.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
