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Launched to Marghera the Viking Star cruise ship
The president and founder of Viking Cruises are received to Palazzo Balbi, center of the regional committee of Veneto
June 23, 2014
Today in the ship yard of Marghera of the Fincantieri group the Viking Star cruise ship is launched, before three units ordered from the Viking Ocean Cruises who will be completed in the spring of 2015 and to which they will follow the deliveries of previewed Viking Sea and Viking Sky respective in the spring and the summer of 2016. Viking Star, as the others two twin units, has a tonnage of about 47.800 tons and will be equipped of 465 cabins for a total ability to 930 passengers.
In occasion of the today's launch the president and founder of Viking Cruises, Torstein Hagen, are received to Palazzo Balbi, center of the regional committee of Veneto, where he is received by the Political leader of the international Department and cooperation, Diego Vecchiato, on behalf of the city council member to the economic Development, Isi Coppey. In the course of the talk he has spoken himself about the importance of the store clerk of Viking Cruises for the Venetian economy and the field of the shipbuilding one. In particular, he is emphasized the aspect of the ecocompatibilità with which this ship is realized and that it is one of its main characteristics.
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