The MSC order Cruises to Fincantieri is for two new ships of 154.000 tsl more units as an option



The total value of the first relative store clerk to the realization of new cruise ships emitted from MSC Cruises regarding Fincantieri piles to 2,1 billion euros. The signed agreement this morning from the executive chairman and the managing director of MSC Cruises Pierfrancesco Vago and Gianni Onorato, and from the managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, previews the construction of two new cruise ships, more an ulterior unit as an option, with an investment of 700 million euros for each of the first two ships that will be financed with the SACE support insurance-financial. The first unit will be delivered to November of 2017, the second one to May of 2018.

The new prototype of ship, called "Seaside", it will be the greatest cruise ship never constructed from Fincantieri. Long 323 meters, wide high 41 and 70, the new units will have a tonnage of 154.000 tons, will be able to accommodate almost 5,200 passengers more 1,413 members of the crew and will be equipped of 2.070 cabins for the hosts, 759 for staff of edge and 43,500 square metres of public areas. MSC Crociere and Fincantieri have emphasized that the new ships will introduce "only characteristics to the vanguard and in the shipbuilding panorama of the naval one in the world that will give the go-ahead to a real generation of able cruise ships to rewrite the rules of the architecture of the field".

The idea to the base of the project is to approach the external spaces, along the flanks of the ship and to stern, at sea level. Between the innovations, the realization of a prom that circumnavigates the flanks of the ship for giving to the crocieristi the feeling to walk on an esplanade, between bar and restaurants in the open air. And still, an enormous theatre, terraced balconies under stars and panoramic lifts with sight on the sea. Numerous also the technological innovations that will carry, among other things, an ulterior reduction of the consumption of 25% and advance security systems that - they have specified MSC Crociere and Fincantieri - go beyond demanded how much from the international regulation.

"Until from the first contacts with Fincantieri - Pierfrancesco Vago has confirmed - we have asked to plan and to construct two completely new ships, revolutionaries in their structure said, regarding how much today already she anticipates on the market. "Seaside is a futuristic prototype in the structure, the agility and the forms. Together with Fincantieri we prepare ourselves to a new and fascinating challenge for the construction of ships that represent a real renewal of world-wide the crocieristico market, produced excellent and innovative for the extraordinary architectonic solutions and technology to the vanguard. On this store clerk group MSC, than already counts 10,000 Italian dependent, the centrality of Italy in its strategies of development restates and continues to invest in the Belpaese being created wealth and job for the entire economic system".

"These ships, that they represent a real progettuale challenge - has added Giuseppe Bono - entirely will be developed by Fincantieri, to confirmation of the technological supremacy to total level that we stop between the naval constructors. Our engagement in the innovation regards all the fields to high added value, thanks to the involvement more than 2.000 assigned technicians and 160 dedicated to the base search, besides a net of Italian and European centers of excellence with which we collaborate. This is the force that returns us an only group to the world in its genre, and that it not only affords us to restate our leadership in a so complex field as that crocieristico, but also to count on a meaningful total workload that very makes to hope us in the flood resumption of the activity".

Gianni Onorato has specified that "this morning MSC Cruises has added the last new dowel the slowly industrial one that - it has explained - within the 2022 will allow us to double the ability to our fleet. With the arrival of the new ships, in fact, we will reach an ability to about 80.000 passengers to the day. Today we are ready with a new programming of advanced investments to the five billions of euro, between new constructions ordered in Italy and France and the transformation of ships already you anticipate in fleet".