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Vard signs with Hapag- Lloyd Cruises the contract for two new cruise ships for shipments
the hull will be constructed in Rumania and the units will be completed in Norway
August 26, 2016
The shipbuilding society Norwegian Vard, controlled from the Fincantieri group, has undersigned a contract for the construction of two cruise ships of luxury for shipments with the German Hapag- Lloyd Cruises, that it is the company of the group TUI with which last May the Scandinavian company had signed a specific letter of attempts ( on 16 May 2016).
The ships will be planned in order to carry out cruises in the Arctic region and that antarctic one let alone in warmer seas.
The two units, of about 16.100 tons of tonnage, will be long about 138 meters and wide 22 and will have an ability to 240 passengers in 120 cabins and suite and until 170 members of the crew.
The hulls of the new ships will be constructed in the Rumanian ship yard to Tulcea of the Vard and will be completed in the Norwegian plant Vard Langsten. The first delivery is previewed in April 2019 and the second one in October of the same year.
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The shipbuilding society Norwegian Vard, controlled from the Fincantieri group, has undersigned a contract for the construction of two cruise ships of luxury for shipments with the German Hapag- Lloyd Cruises, that it is the company of the group TUI with which last May the Scandinavian company had signed a specific letter of attempts 
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