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Fincantieri has delivered the cruise ship Majestic Princess to the Princess Cruises
It is the first ship planned and constructed from the Italian company specifically for the Chinese market
March 30, 2017
Today in the ship yard of Monfalcone of the Fincantieri, to the presence of the Prime Minister of ministers Paolo Gentiloni, the ceremony of delivery of Majestic Princess, the third cruise ship of the class "Royal Princess" constructed for the society has been carried out owner of a shipping company Princess Cruises of the American group Carnival Corporation.
To the event they are taken part, between the others, president of the Region Friuli Venice, Julia, Debora Serracchiani, and the summits of the society owner of a shipping company: Micky Arison, chairman of Carnival Corporation, Arnold Donald, managing director of Carnival Corporation, Stein Kruse, managing director of Holland America Group, and Jan Swartz, group president of Princess Cruises and Carnival Australia. Fincantieri was represented by president Giampiero Massolo and the managing director Giuseppe Bono.
The Majestic Princess, that it is the greatest cruise ship never realized in Italy, has a tonnage of 145.000 tons and will be able to accommodate 4,250 passengers in 1.780 cabins and 1,350 members of the crew. Majestic Princess, that it fly the flag of Bermudas, is characterized by a new livery with the historical logo of Princess Cruises painted on both the flanks to bow of the ship and by written in Chinese ideograms "Shèng Shì Gng Zh Haò", that it means "Great Spirit". Draft of the first ship planned and constructed from Fincantieri specifically for the Chinese market: on board, in fact, areas ad hoc for the tastes and the habits of the Chinese passengers with the preparation of new spaces of entertainment as salt karaoke and restaurants dedicated to various types of kitchen are created with an immense culinary choice.
"To this magnificent ship - the president of the regional agency Serracchiani has declared in the course of the ceremony - the task will be up to face a new market as that Chinese. This, is not only for us pride reason, but it symbolizes the force of a Italy that it knows to be able to pick the opportunities offered from the globalization".
"The Majestic Princess - the Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni has asserted, referring to the recent developments of the Brexit - is the symbol of a Country that chooses to face the open sea and that it is not shut in itself same".
Remembering that on 600 million cost for the construction of ship very 200 they go for the benefit of the national economy in terms of fallen back fiscal and social insurance, the managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, have put the accent on the performances of the company that looks to 2017 as to a carried out year of.
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