Started in the Fincantieri yard of Ancona the construction of the Seven Seas Splendor



Today in the ship yard of Ancona of the Fincantieri the ceremony of the cut of the first sheet of Seven Seas Splendor, the second extra cruise ship has been carried out luxury that Fincantieri will realize for the society owner of a shipping company Regent Seven Seas Cruises, brand of the group Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. The delivery is previewed in the first months of 2020.

With its 55,500 tons of tonnage, Seven Seas Splendor will have a length of 224 meters and will be able to accommodate 754 passengers in 375 wide suite. The new unit, that it will follow Seven Seas Explorer delivered from the yard of Sestri in June West last year, will be constructed adopting the most advanced technologies in topic of environmental protection. The preparation particularly will be searched and lend much attention to comfort for the passengers.

To the ceremony they were you anticipate, between the others, for the society owner of a shipping company Jason Montague, president and CEO of Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Robin Lindsay, executive vice president of Vessel Operations di Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and, for Fincantieri, Giovanni Stecconi, director of the yard of Ancona.

While, in occasion of sixth edition DIMDEX 2018, the more important appointment in the field of the defense in the Middle Eastern area that has yesterday closed down to Qatar National Convention Centre di Doha, Fincantieri has undersigned a letter of attempts with Barzan Holdings, society possessed to the 100% from the Defense Ministry of Qatar and responsible for the potenziamento of the military abilities to the Armed Forces of the State. Scope of the agreement is to study possible forms of collaboration in the withins of the coastal defense surveillance, through the application of new technologies and innovative services of program management and maintenance in the picture of the naval programs qatarini.

The understanding, that it is signed by Angelo Fusco, director Navi Militari di Fincantieri, and by Abdulrahman Fakhro, director of Business development of Barzan Holdings, joins in the strategy of development of the business of Fincantieri in Middle East. The Italian group has remembered to have in June in fact signed a 2016 important contracted with the Defense Ministry of Qatar, of the value almost four billions of euro, for the supply of seven ships of surface, of which four corvettes of the length of beyond 100 meters, a amphibious ship (LPD - Landing Platform Dock) and two pattugliatori (OPV - Offshore Patrol Vessel) and of the ulterior services of support in Qatar for 10 years after the delivery of the units. All the units will come entirely constructed in the Italian yards of the group, assuring various years of job and important falling back on the main Italian societies of the defense.

In continuity with this Fincantieri result it has moreover constituted recently to Doha Fincantieri Services Middle East, controlled to 100% with licence by Qatar Financial Centre, that the activities of services and post will be the fulcrum of all sale on the military ships of the group in the Country. The society has already undersigned the agreements on the spot previewed from the contract for the supply of the relative services to the seven naval units. Such agreements will have the effect to support and to develop entire woven the industrial one of the services associated to the fields of the navalmeccanica and the Defense in Qatar.