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The consistency of the order of Crystal Cruises to Lloyd Werft salt to four new fluvial cruise ships
Crystal River Cruises will begin the activity to half of the next year having been is acquired the Mozart, the greatest European fluvial cruise ship
November 3, 2015
Crystal Cruises, the crocieristica company that at the beginning of this year is yielded by the shipowning group Japanese Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) to the Genting Hong Kong, group that work in the crocieristico, tourist and hotel field ( on 3 March 2015), Lloyd Werft di relative Bremerhaven to the construction of fluvial cruise ships of luxury has announced to have increased the consistency of the order to the German ship yard that is gone up by one to four destined boats the fleet of the new Crystal River Cruises brand. Moreover the new brand will begin the activity in 2016 with the delivery of the first ship, a year before previously programmed how much.
Crystal in fact has announced to have completed the acquisition of the Mozart, the greatest fluvial cruise ship European, of the ability to 160 passengers, than previously era of property of the German Premicon AG and operated with the name Detour Mozart from the German tour operator Dertour. The ship, constructed in 1987, will be important subordinate renovations, will be renamed Crystal Mozart and begin the next the 13 activity July on the Danube river.
The four new ordered ships to Lloyd Werft will enter in service between the june and August of 2017. Two of these ships, of the unitary ability to 110 passengers, will be used on the rivers Rhine, Meno and the Danube and will be christened Crystal Bach and Crystal Mahler. Of the others two, of the unitary ability to 84 passengers who will have the names Crystal Ravel and Crystal Debussy, one will be employed on the French river Senna and the other on the French rivers Garonna and Dordogna.
We remember that in the past weeks the Genting group di Hong Kong has signed an agreement in order to acquire the control of the Lloyd Werft ship yard (inforMARE on September 18, 2015).
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Crystal Cruises, the crocieristica company that at the beginning of this year is yielded by the shipowning group Japanese Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) to the Genting Hong Kong, group that work in the crocieristico, tourist and hotel field 
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