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From end 2017 Silversea Cruises will employ the ship from cruise of luxury Silver Cloud in the segment of the explorations
the unit will receive the notation ice-class
September 21, 2015
Beginning from November 2017 the company Silversea Cruises will transfer own ship from cruise of luxury Silver Cloud to the segment of the crocieristiche activities in remote areas. With this scope in August 2017 the unit will enter in basin for being subordinate to important participations of restructure that will allow with the ship to acquire the notation ice-class.
Silver Cloud has been the first ship to take part of the fleet from the company, that it is founded in 1994. Currently the unit, that it has a tonnage of 16.800 tons, has an ability to 296 passengers and 222 members of the crew. Transformed in ship for explorations, the unit will have an ability to 260 passengers who will come down to 200 passengers when the ship is employed in cruises in the polar regions.
Currently the segment Siverseas Expeditions of the crocieristica company has a fleet formed from the ships Silver Discoverer, Silver Galapagos and Silver Explorer. "The cruises of polar exploration of the Silver Explorer - the managing director of Silversea Cruises has explained, Enzo Visone - have been revealed very popular between our hosts. Converting the Silver Cloud in a ship ice-class for our exploratory fleet we will be best positioned in order to satisfy the increasing you ask of comfortable travels of adventure, in particular towards the Arctic and the Antarctic one, places that can be explored in better way from small ships with hulls specifically reinforced in order to navigate between the ice".
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