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AIDA Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line have taken in delivery two new cruise ships
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Meyer Werft are constructed by
April 27, 2017
Today AIDA Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) have taken in delivery two new cruise ships. In the ship yard of Nakasaki of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHOS), to the presence of the president and managing director of the Japanese shipbuilding society, Shunichi Miyanaga, of the president of AIDA Cruises, Felix Eichhom, and of the president of the group leader Costa Crociere, Michael Thamm, has held the ceremony of delivery of the AIDAperla, ship that in the next few days will sail at a time of the Mediterranean for being christened next the 30 june to Palm of Majorca and successively to begin a series of cruises in the western Mediterranean.
The AIDAperla, of 125 thousand tons of tonnage, is long 300 meters, wide 37,6 meters, has 18 bridges, 1,643 cabins and can accommodate 3,286 passengers. The ship is twin of the AIDAprima, the first ship that the navalmeccanico group MHOS has constructed for the German crocieristica company and that it is delivered on March 14, 2016.
The delivery of the AIDAperla could sanction the escape of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries group from the field of the construction of great fleeting ships. The store clerk with AIDA has revealed a disaster from the economic point of view for the Japanese group because of the delays in the phases of construction of the two ships, so much so that a year it makes MHOS has instituted an internal committee which charged to examine the situation of the field and to estimate if to continue or less the activity in the segment of the cruise ships, appraisal that has not still lead to a definitive decision in merit.
Always today in the ship yard of Bremerhaven of the Meyer Werft group the ceremony of delivery of the Norwegian Joy has been carried out, fifteenth cruise ship of the fleet of the Norwegian Cruise Line, that it has a tonnage of 168 thousand tons, is long 326 meters, wide 41,4 meters and has an ability to 3.883 passengers. The Norwegian Joy is the first ship of the company to being planned specifically for the Chinese market. Shortly the unit will sail at a time of China where it will be christened on 27 June with a ceremony that will hold to Shanghai.
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Today AIDA Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) have taken in delivery two new cruise ships. In the ship yard of Nakasaki of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHOS), to the presence of the president and managing director of the Japanese shipbuilding society, Shunichi Miyanaga, of the president of AIDA Cruises, Felix Eichhom, and of the president of the group leader Costa Crociere, Michael Thamm, has held the ceremony of delivery of the AIDAperla, ship that in the next few days will sail at a time of the Mediterranean for being christened next the 30 june to Palm of Majorca and successively to begin a series of cruises in the western Mediterranean.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
