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Thomson Cruises will acquire the cruise ship Legend of the Seas of Royal Caribbean
It will be taken in delivery in the spring of 2017
June 3, 2016
The American crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises has signed an agreement in order to sell in the spring of the 2017 cruise ship Legend of the Seas British Thomson Cruises, company that takes part of tourist group German TUI. The last cruise of the ship under the brand Royal Caribbean International of the group American will sail on March 13, 2017.
The Legend of the Seas, that Atlantique (now STX France) of Saint Nazaire is constructed in the Chantiers ship yard de and delivered to Royal Caribbean International in 1995, has a tonnage of 69.472 tons, is long 264 meters, wide 37 meters and can accommodate 1,832 passengers and 726 members of the crew.
After the passage to Thomson Cruises the Legend of the Seas will be renamed TUI Discovery 2 being twin of the TUI Discovery (former Splendour of the Seas), ship of the ability to 1.830 passengers who the British company has taken rental from the TUI Cruises, joint venture joint formed from the TUI and Royal Caribbean Cruises, that it has acquired the ship from the same RCL and that Thomson will take in the next few days in delivery for being based to Palm of Majorca. With these two ships the fleet of Thomson Cruises will go up to six total units to which they will join in 2018 and the 2019 respective Mein Schiff 1 and the Mein Schiff 2 that will be yielded to the company from the TUI Cruises.
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The American crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises has signed an agreement in order to sell in the spring of the 2017 cruise ship Legend of the Seas British Thomson Cruises, company that takes part of tourist group German TUI. The last cruise of the ship under the brand Royal Caribbean International of the group American will sail on March 13, 2017.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
