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Carnival orders two new cruise ships to Fincantieri
They will have a tonnage of 133.500 and 99.500 tons and will be delivered respective to Carnival Cruise Lines and Holland America Line
December 19, 2014
The navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri has adjudicated an order for the construction of two new destined cruise ships to the companies Carnival Cruise Line and Holland America Line, brand of the American group Carnival Corporation. The units will be twin respective of Carnival Vista and Koningsdam, currently under construction near the Fincantieri plants.
The ship for Carnival Cruise Lines, that he will be 26th in the fleet of the brand the American, will have 133,500 tons of tonnage, an ability to 3.954 passengers and will enter in service in spring 2018. The unit for Holland America Line, second of the class the Pinnacle, will have instead a tonnage of 99.500 tons, it will be able to accommodate 2,650 passengers on board, and will be delivered in the autumn of 2018.
"To be chosen once again for a so important order - the managing director of Fincantieri has commented, Giuseppe Bono - it is the best acknowledgment of our abilities. Draft in fact of sign extremely meaningful, above all if we consider the evolution moment that is living the navalmeccanica in the crocieristico section, is in Europe that in Asia. Fincantieri can count on a pocketbook equal orders solid and without in terms of diversification and quality of the produced one, than us confirmation field leader. This position - it has emphasized Bono - has consolidated also thanks to the relationship with Carnival, partnership that in the years it has afforded to the company to grow and that today is strengthened with the recent agreement for the Chinese market and with orders as these, to which hopes some will follow of ulterior".
"The order to Fincantieri - it has asserted Arnold Donald, President and CEO of Carnival Corporation - demonstrates our continuous engagement in order to on board offer to our customers the possible best through the brands of the group. The new units will lead the way in terms of technology and preparations in order to create to a modern experience of cruise and to contribute to the increase of the question".
From the 1990 today Fincantieri it has realized 67 cruise ships. From to the 2018 plants of the Italian group they will construct to others 17 units here, of which eight for the Carnival group.
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The navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri has adjudicated an order for the construction of two new destined cruise ships to the companies Carnival Cruise Line and Holland America Line, brand of the American group Carnival Corporation. The units will be twin respective of Carnival Vista and Koningsdam, currently under construction near the Fincantieri plants.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
