Royal Caribbean has ordered to the construction of a fourth ship of class "Quantum" to Meyer Werft



The American crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises, than work through the brands Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, Azamara Cruises Club, CDF Croisières de France and TUI Cruises (this last one is joint venture 50:50 with German group TUI), has ordered to the construction of a fourth cruise ship of class "Quantum" to the German ship yard Meyer Werft. The new unit will enter to take part of the fleet of the group American in the spring of 2019.

The class ships "Quantum" have a tonnage of 167.800 tons, are long 348 meters, wide 41 meters and can accommodate 4,180 passengers (in double occupation, 4905 passengers in total) and 1,500 members of the crew.

Royal Caribbean has announced that the current program of new constructions of the group (included the ships for TUI Cruises) does not imply investments pairs to 1,6 billion dollars in the entire solo exercise anniversary 2015 in the course of which the Anthem of the Seas is taken in delivery( on 10 April 2015), second of the four new ships of class "Quantum" tidy all to Meyer Werft (the first, the Quantum of the Seas, is taken in delivery in the autumn last year, on 28 October 2014), to which investments for 2,3 billion dollars in the exercise 2016 when it will enter in fleet the Ovation of the Seas, the third ship of class "Quantum", and a new ship of class "ordered Oasis" to French ship yard STX France, investments for 400 million dollars in exercise 2017 in the course of which to hour they are not in program deliveries of ships, investments for 2,4 billion dollars in the exercise 2018 join in which a second ship of class "Oasis" ordered to STX France will be taken in delivery and are opzionata to yard STX France the delivery of before one new generation of ships for the brand Celebrity Cruises, investments for 1,3 billion dollars in the exercise 2019 in which the plan Quantum" ordered to Meyer Werft currently previews the single delivery of the last ship of class ". Moreover it is fixed for the 2020 delivery of a second ship of new generation for Celebrity Cruises opzionata to STX France.

This investment program will determine an increment of the fleeting ability to the fleet of the group pairs to +5,5% in 2015, +6.3% in 2016, +3.1% in 2017, +3.9% in 2018 and +6.5% in 2019.