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Ponant confirmation the order to Vard for the construction of four cruise ships
They will be delivered between the summer of the 2018 and summer of 2019
August 12, 2016
The crocieristica company Ponant, than from July 2015 is under responsibility of the French group Artémis, holding of the Pinault family, has confirmed to the Vard Holdings of the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri the construction of four cruise ships of luxury for which last March a letter of attempts was signed ( on 15 March 2016).
The ships, of about 10.000 tons of tonnage and with notation ice-class, will be long about 131 meters, wide 18 meters and will have a cruise speed of 15 knots. Every unit will be able to accommodate 180 passengers in 92 cabins and a crew constituted from 110 people.
The hulls of the ships will be constructed in the Rumanian ship yard Vard Tulcea and therefore the four units will be completed in the Norwegian yard Vard Søviknes that it will deliver to them between the summer of 2018 and the summer of the next year.
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The crocieristica company Ponant, than from July 2015 is under responsibility of the French group Artémis, holding of the Pinault family, has confirmed to the Vard Holdings of the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri the construction of four cruise ships of luxury for which last March a letter of attempts was signed 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
