MSC Cruises orders to STX France the construction of a fifth cruise ship of class "Wonder"



MSC Cruises has ordered to French ship yard STX France the construction of a fifth cruise ship of the class "Wonder" that . The class units "Wonder", of the tonnage of 168 thousand tons, are long 300 meters, wide 43 and have an ability to 5.700 passengers.

The new ship ordered to the yard of Saint Nazaire will be equipped with engines of new generation, to double feeding, planned in order to work to liquified natural gas (LNG). Moreover the unit will be equipped of the most recent and innovative environmental technologies, in particular of an advanced system of treatment of sewage water in compliance with the severeer normative standards of the world, included the contained dispositions in resolution MEPC.227 for the Baltic Sea.

MSC Cruises has specified that announced today represents ship additional regarding plan industrial in to be, that previews the construction of 12 boats within 2026 of which already three delivered in the course of last the 12 months, with a total investment pairs to 10,5 billion euros that will carry the fleet to 24 units within 2026. With the fifth ship of the class "Wonder" the investments of the industrial plan will increase to 11,5 billion and the fleet will go up to 25 ships.

The crocieristica company has three ships to Saint-Nazaire under construction, where in the day today they are celebrated the cut of the first sheet of the fourth ship of the class "Wonder", than Vituous MSC will be called, the "ceremony of the currency" of Huge MSC and the float-out of the Beautifulst MSC.

"With the announcement of another new ship, thirteenth of our decennial plan of investments - it has emphasized Pierfrancesco Vago, MSC executive chariman Cruises - we want to emphasize our engagement for a sustainable increase of MSC Cruises. And I say it while there are three ships of new under construction simultaneous generation in the yard. With the fifth ship of the class "Wonder", MSC Cruises will carry on the market a new generation of environmental technologies to the vanguard and a new generation of fed engines to LNG. This will help us to reduce the environmental impact ulteriorly and to continue the distance of constant improvement. The new ship joins to other four ships class "Class World", they also fed to LNG, to emphasize our engagement for the protection of the atmosphere thanks to it use of technologies and solutions of last generation on entire fleet MSC Cruises".