Store clerk of MSC to STX France for the construction of four great cruise ships



In the course of a ceremony to the Palace of Elysium to Paris, to the presence of French president François Hollande, than it has been concluded in these minutes, the president and founder of the shipowning group Helvetic Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), Gianluigi Aponte, and the managing director of navalmeccanico group French STX France, Laurent Castaing, a letter of attempts for the construction of four new has confirmed the subscription great cruise ships, store clerk who, with the four ships also destined they to crocieristico brand MSC Cruises that the shipowning group has already ordered to STX France and that are currently under construction in the plant of Saint Nazaire ( on April 20, 2015 and 1° February 2016), it will guarantee job to the transalpine navalmeccanica company until 2026. The new contract, that it will presee the realization of the first two ships and options for the construction of the others two unit, will have a value of about four billions of euro

The four new ships, of beyond 200 thousand tons of tonnage, will be of the new class "World". The units will be long 335 meters, wide 47 meters and will have of 2.750 passenger compartments and about 5.400 low beds. The propulsion of the ships will be fed with which liquified natural gas. The deliveries are previewed in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

The other four ships of which already the construction is started on Saint Nazaire for MSC Cruises are two unit of class "Wonder" of the tonnage of 167 thousand tons and of the maximum ability to 5.714 passengers in delivery in June 2017 and in February 2019 and from two unit of class "Wonder" of the tonnage of 177 thousand tons and of the maximum ability to 6.330 passengers in delivery in October 2019 and in September 2020.

Alle eight ships that group MSC has in order near STX France add the three ships that the company has ordered to the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri that will be of class "Seaside", of the tonnage of 160 thousand tons, of the maximum ability to 5.179 passengers and whose construction is begun to half last year with deliveries in November 2017, May 2018 and May 2021. The total value of the decennial plan of the crocieristica company piles now to about nine billions of euro.

"The announcement today - executive president of MSC Crociere has commented, Pierfrancesco Vago - is an ulterior test, if necessary, of the meaningful opportunities of increase that we believe this field offers for our brand and our produced one, as well as of our firm engagement to being very positioned in order to pick them at best. For this reason, our plan of investments of beyond ten years now comprises until eleven new ships MSC Cruises, that they will take to service between 2017 and 2026. Draft also of the result of our constant engagement towards the innovation, from the moment that we have a chance for collaborate with STX France in order to once again plan a completely new prototype - already sixth in our history. In fact, prototype MSC Cruises Class World will introduce, for the first time in the field, a futuristic design that new records will mark and will be profitable the ship an indeed only place in order to travel in sea, maximizing the space to the open air available for the hosts". "Our focus of long period on the innovation - it has specified Vague - will return the new completely various prototype from the existing in the field of the cruises. The ship will be: richest than comfort and functionality for the hosts, he is for the families and their children who for the adults; to the vanguard in the design to 360 degrees; with best and the more advance technology smart; equipped of the most evolven technologies on hand in terms of environmental impact, to go to the engines fed from GNL. Moreover, it will be a ship for all the seasons and all the geographic areas".

The managing director of STX France, Laurent Castaing, has emphasized that the shipbuilding group has signed today "an agreement unprecedented with MSC Cruises, than - he has explained - will afford us of having a clear vision of our industrial ability for next the ten years. We have a positive relation with MSC Cruises from many years - it has remembered - of which this agreement it represents an ulterior strengthening. We have already devised four different classes of ships for MSC Cruises - Opera, Music, Fantasy and Wonder - ognuna represented from four ships; now we are working entirety for the new generation of ships "Class World". In 2026, a total of 20 ships will be designed and constructed by the STX France to Saint-Nazaire". "MSC Cruises - it has evidenced Castaign - has widened own total presence and own fleet of ships to the vanguard, that they arrange the last technologies available, comfort and entertainment without equal, with the minor impact on the atmosphere. In order to realize this new phase of increase, MSC Cruises has chosen STX France for our ingegneristiche and productive competences in a logic of partnership of long period - a decision that returns me indeed happy".