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Cruises saga orders a new cruise ship of 55.900 tsl to the Meyer Werft ship yard
the agreement includes an option for the construction of a second unit
September 30, 2015
Cruises saga, crocieristica company of the British group Saga that work mainly in the fields of tourism, the assurances, the health and the finance, has signed an agreement with the German ship yard Meyer Werft in order to order the construction of a cruise ship with delivery in the summer of 2019 and for opzionare the realization of a second unit with delivery in 2021.
Saga has announced that the ability to the new ship will be inferior to thousand passengers with the objective to maintain that atmosphere of privacy for which the crocieristico brand is renowned. "This investment - it has specified the executive director of the company, Lance Batchelor - will be of transformation for the crocieristica activity and our customers of the cruises. The specific details of the new constructed ship purposely for us - it has added - will be defined in the next few months, but the traditional dear characteristics to our customers will preserve". The managing director of Saga Cruise, Robin Shaw, has emphasized that the new ship will have an elevated number of members of the crew in connection with that of the passengers and that the ship will have wide spaces publics.
The new ship will have a tonnage of 55.900 tons, will be long 234 meters and wide 30,8 meters. Saga and Meyer Werft have anticipated that the unit will have about 540 suite and cabins ognuna with balcony, and that about 15% of the cabins it will be to single occupation. For the German ship yard draft of the first order received from the English company.
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Cruises saga, crocieristica company of the British group Saga that work mainly in the fields of tourism, the assurances, the health and the finance, has signed an agreement with the German ship yard Meyer Werft in order to order the construction of a cruise ship with delivery in the summer of 2019 and for opzionare the realization of a second unit with delivery in 2021.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
