MSC Cruises confirmation the construction of two ulterior cruise ships near STX France



MSC Cruises, in advance regarding the previewed times, has confirmed to STX France the options for the construction of two ulterior cruise ships of class "Wonder" (previously called "Seen"), that they will be taken in delivery to October 2019 and september 2020 anticipating so almost two years the delivery of the last one of the four ships of the class commissioned to the French ship yard. The crocieristica company in occasion of the celebration in the plant of Saint-Nazaire of STX France of "coin ceremony" of MSC the Wonder has announced today, ship of the tonnage of 167.000 tons that will be christened on June 1°, 2017 to the Havre from where it will leave for its inaugural season in the Mediterranean that will have Genoa which homeport.

MSC Cruises has specified that the two ulterior ships will be of the new generation "Wonder" and will be characterized by a tonnage and greater dimensions, with a total of 2.444 cabins and the maximum ability to 8.000 people, between passengers (6,300 people) and crew. The two ships will be also the first and only ones to being endowed of a museum of classic and contemporary art on board.

"Our collaboration of long date with STX France and the continuous increase of the company - Pierfrancesco Vago has explained, MSC executive chairman Cruises - today allows me to confirm very early established the existing options for the two additional ships. The two Wonder units will be still larger and longer as well as richer than activity and comfort, to confirmation that MSC Cruises is the more audacious innovator of the field regarding the design of the ships and the experiences that we offer to our crocieristi on board".

Vague it has remembered that today is eleventh coin ceremony of a ship of the company near the yard of STX France: "it is here - it has evidenced - that the ships of our current fleet are constructed to all and this makes of we, regarding export contracts, the greater foreign private investor in France, with beyond eight billions of euros invested in the course of the period, and one of the greater total investor". MSC Cruises has specified that the two new confirmed ships today are worth 1,6 billion euros and give a ride to therefore the total investment for the sun four ships of generation Wonder and Wonder to three billions of euro.

"This order - the president of STX France has commented, Laurent Castaing - strengthens extraordinary partnership the only one that we have developed in the years with MSC Cruises constructing their ships. Of the quality of our relationship with a demanding outsourcer whom its confidence in we lays by and the experience is the test during the projects of our respective teams that have learned to innovate entirety in order to equip to fleet MSC Cruises of modernity, performance and safety to levels of excellence".

In occasion of the today's ceremony the managing director of the crocieristica company, Gianni Onorato, has emphasized that "in the 2015 MSC Cruises he has concluded another year of increase unprecedented, with an increase of the sales of 10% regarding the year precedence and 1,7 million passengers transported from the 12 ships to ultramodere some that compose our fleet. In the markets key as Italy, Germany, Spain and France - it has specified - the advanced rate of growth at the market has been translate in an ulterior increase of the market share". "For 2016 - it has added Honored - we preview an ulterior increase of 6% regarding last year".