New order to Fincantieri for two cruise ships emitted from TUI Cruises



After the confirmation yesterday by the group Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings of the order for the construction of two ulterior ships of class "Project Leonardo", today the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri has embedded another store clerk for the construction of others two cruise ships that are emitted by crocieristica company TUI Cruises, joint venture 50:50 for the market of German language between German group TUI and the group American Royal Caribbean Cruises. Draft of two twin units that will be realized in the ship yard of Monfalcone and that they will be completed in 2024 and 2026 when they enter in the fleet of the company whose consistency will go up to a total of nine ships.

With a tonnage of 161 thousand tons, the two twin ships for TUI Cruises will be most major unit from cruise never constructed in Italy and the system of propulsion of the units will be fed to which liquified natural gas. Fincantieri has specified that the order is based on a developed prototype project from Fincantieri that values the characteristics consolidated of modernity and sustainability of TUI Cruises, society that more boasts one of the advanced fleets under the ecological profile. In particular - it has explained the navalmeccanico group - with a producing configuration of innovative, to the center of the project is placed energy efficiency, with the twofold objective to contain the consumption in exercise and to diminish the environmental impact, online with all the most recent norms in matter.

"As for the other ships of the fleet - it has emphasized the managing director of TUI Cruises, Wybcke Meier - the relationship between number of the passengers and space on hand is always important. The decision to extend our plan of expansion with two new units to reduced emissions is framed as a logical prosecuzione of our environmental strategy".

"Once again - the Managing director of Fincantieri has commented, Giuseppe Bono - we have demonstrated of knowing to us to introduce at the market with the best formula than reliability and ability to innovation, pillars of the Made in Italy and that they distinguish Fincantieri in the shipbuilding panorama of the world-wide one. The project that we have set up and introduced to the shipowner us has afforded to reach this exceptional commercial result and an authentic supremacy, than it does not only mean to add to a new brand to our pocketbook customers, but also a reference of absolute vanguard under the technological profile to our produced ones. They are all factors with which we consolidate our leadership in the section and that they are extended ulteriorly the occupational horizon of our yards, not comparable to no other industrial field".