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Norwegian Cruise Line orders to two new great cruise ships of 164.600 tsl to Meyer Werft
The store clerk will have a total value of about 1,6 billion euros
July 15, 2014
The not firm crocieristica industry its race to the renewal and widening of the fleets although the repeated signs that seem to indicate a crack of the increase of the waited for question for the next years. Now Meyer Werft is the company Norwegian Cruise Line (NLC) to announce an agreement for the construction of two new great cruise ships of Breakaway-Plus class which signed with the German ship yard. . The units, of 164.600 tons of tonnage and the ability to 4.200 passengers, will be completed in according to trimester of 2018 and in the fourth trimester of 2019.
The managing director of NCL, Kevin Sheehan, has emphasized that the Norwegian Getaway and the Norwegian Breakaway, the ships that the company has taken in delivery respective in the spring of 2013 and at the beginning of this year ( on April 26, 2013 and 10 January 2014), "they have been demonstrated revolutionary for the field and - it has added - extremely popular between our hosts. Natural era - it has found Sheehan - that we were based on their success for this new order of ships that ulteriorly strengthens our strategy of increase in the long term".
"We are enthusiastic - the managing director of Meyer Werft has commented, Bernard Meyer - than Norwegian Cruise continuous Line to place confidence in Meyer Werft in order to widen own fleet. We are very proud of our long-lasting relationship with Norwegian".
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