Norwegian Cruise Line orders four new ships of 140 thousand tsl to Fincantieri, with option for others two unit



The group Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) has ordered to the shipbuilding company Fincantieri the construction of four cruise ships of new class with option for two ulterior ships that will come destined to the crocieristico brand Norwegian Cruise Line (NLC), than with the marks Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises constitutes the operating arm of the group.

The four new ships will be long almost 300 meters, will have a tonnage of 140 thousand tons and will be able to accommodate about 3.300 passengers. The tidy units will be delivered in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, while the delivery of those as an option is programmed in 2026 and 2027. The order has a value of about 800 million dollars for each ship. Fincantieri has specified that determining for the good aim of the store clerk and for the choice by the shipowner it has been the contribution of Cdp and Sace, together with that of the other subjects of the export credit, that has afforded to financial the navalmeccanico group to propose attractive a technical-commercial package and, moreover subject to some conditions.

The shipbuilding group has specified that the order, that it is first for the company Norwegian Cruise Line, while the Italian company already has constructed to two ships for Oceania Cruises (Marine and Coast) and one for Regent Seven Seas Cruises (Seven Seas Explorer) and has in course the realization of a second unit for this last brand, "it is based on a developed prototype project from Fincantieri that values the characteristics consolidated of freedom and flexibility of NCL with a producing configuration of innovative, in a position to ulteriorly enriching the experience offered to the passengers. Moreover - it has specified Fincantieri - particular attention is placed to energy efficiency, with the twofold objective to contain the consumption in exercise and to diminish the environmental impact, online with the most recent norms in matter".

"This new class of ships - it has emphasized Frank Del Rio, president and managing director of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings - will confirm the tradition to introduce meaningful innovations in the crocieristica industry own of the brand Norwegian Cruise Line. This order rimarca our program for the new constructions, increases and strengthens our profile of increase, already meaningful and shows a return in the long period for our shareholders".

"This exceptional result - the managing director of Fincantieri has commented, Giuseppe Bono - affords us to number new a prestigious brand in our pocketbook customers, to confirmation of the ability to Fincantieri to develop in flexible way solutions to the vanguard to the service of every segment and requirement of the modern crocieristica. We are very proud of the project for these ships: we have set up to our inside and introduced the shipowner, than it has appreciated to the point such to order of an entire class".

"Al attainment of this objective - it has continued Bono - has contributed in determining way various actors of the row of the export, to which our acknowledgment goes. To these factors, all fundamental ones, obviously go added the value of an order of such capacity, of which the group will benefit in economic terms and of workload, being extended ulteriorly the occupational horizon of our yards, than is not comparable to no other industrial field. At last, we are also proud of giving a substantial contribution to the economic increase of our Country that, as all we know, demands a choral effort in order to recover own quotas on the world-wide market".

While Fincantieri has announced an ulterior extension of the relative period to finalized unconditioned totalitarian voluntary the public purchase offer to the purchase of common stocks of Vard Holdings Limited not already stopped directly or indirectly, controlled or object of agreement of purchase, offer that has been launch from own controlled Fincantieri Oil & Gas Spa 13th November. The closing of the period of offer, previously established for hours 17,30 (hour of Singapore) on , is postponed to hours 17,30 (hour of Singapore) on March 10, 2017.