Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announces a new delay in the delivery of before two new cruise ships for AIDA Cruises



The ship yard of Nakasaki of the Japanese group Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHOS) has announced not to be able to deliver within the next month the new AIDAprima cruise ship to the German company AIDA Cruises of the group American Carnival Corporation, that therefore it has announced of being forced to a variation of winter crocieristica planning 2015-16.

AIDA Cruises has specified that the AIDAstella ship, whose next employment would have had to be in the western Mediterranean, will replace the AIDAprima carrying out the departures in program between the next November and March 2016 from Dubay and Abu Dhabi.

The AIDAprima is before two unit of 125.000 tons of tonnage that the Carnival group has ordered to the Japanese yard to end 2011 and whose construction is begun to half 2013 ( on November 2, 2011 and on 1° July 2013). Originally the delivery of the first ship was previewed in the spring of this year, then the announcement of the new delay in the delivery is sli to september and now.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has explained that "the construction of the ship, on which technologies to the vanguard are installed in order to guarantee an optimal safety and in order to improve the efficiency and in order to include new procedures of automation to the aim to reduce the labor, was proceeding towards the previewed delivery date". The Japanese navalmeccanico group has specified that now "working to it tightens contact with AIDA Cruises in order to fix a given new of the completion that guarantees the fleeting delivery of a first ship major-league, greatest never constructed for the crocieristica company, with the most elevated levels than quality, comfort and of entertainment". MHOS have concluded specifying that the delivery date new of the AIDAprima will be communicated together to AIDA Cruises as soon as will be reached a definitive decision.

"Absolutely we are afflicted - he has emphasized the president of AIDA Cruises, Michael Ungerer - not to be able to offer to our hosts the vacation to which aspired and that we had programmed. All the hosts interested from the event will be informed and naturally they will be offered alternatives and generous compensations. Firmly we are convinced - however he has assured Ungerer - that we will have a ship first class that will fix new standards and that it will exceed the expectations of the customers with its innovative produced ones, of absolute quality and also with other services".