MSC Cruises has carried to term the renewal of four ships



MSC Cruises has carried to term the Program Renaissance that has involved an investment of 200 million euros for the important realization works of renewal on four carried out ships of the fleet in the ship yard of Fincantieri to Palermo. Between the main participations carried out on MSC Harmony, MSC Symphony, MSC Lyric Opera and MSC, the insertion of a new one troncone along 24 meters in the central zone of the ships, the addition of new spaces dedicated to the entertainment, adoption of technologies to the vanguard, the renewal of the edge boutiques and the addition of 193 new cabins for ship.

The ships, originally long 251 meters and in a position to transporting until 2.200 passengers each, to the term of the Program have become long 275 meters, have a tonnage of about 65.000 tons and have an ability to 2.679 people.

The work of the Program is begun to February 2014 and has marked the first step of the second floor gives beyond five billions of euro of widening of the fleet of the crocieristica company that previews the construction of seven ships of next generation, between which two prototypes to the vanguard by French yards STX and of the Fincantieri Italian, whose delivery is previewed between 2017 and 2022.

Today to Genoa, introducing the completion of the Program on board of the Lyric cruise ship MSC that has exited yesterday from the yard of Palermo and is the last one to have completed this series of participations, the managing director of MSC Cruises, Gianni Onorato, has specified that with specific reference to Lyric MSC, in forecast of its positioning to Shanghai from May 2016, the ship completely is customizzata with a series of specific services for the Chinese market.

If Lyric MSC will be placed in China, MSC Opera will have as homeport the Havana beginning from December 2015 in order to offer cruises in the Caribbean, MSC Harmony will make base to Genoa in order to realize routes in the western Mediterranean and MSC Symphony already is dislocated with homeport to Durban from which it sails with routes towards Mozambique, Namibia, Island of Réunion and Mauritius.

Honored it has emphasized that "Renaissance is the first pillar of the second phase of MSC increase Cruises, the second - it has remembered - they are the seven ships of next generation of new construction that will be launched between 2017 and 2022. With the Program Renaissance - it has added - we have renewed completely four ships that will be destined to strategic segments of world-wide the crocieristico market with services, equipments and comfort major-league of which today MSC Cruises it is synonymous".