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Fincantieri, signed a memorandum of agreement with Princess Cruises for the construction of two cruise ships
They will be realized to Monfalcone and they will have a tonnage of 175.000 tons
July 23, 2018
Fincantieri has signed with the crocieristica company Princess Cruises of the American group Carnival Corporation a memorandum of agreement for the construction near the yard of Monfalcone of two cruise ships of next generation from 175.000 tons of tonnage, that largest they will up to now be realized in Italy, with deliveries previewed at the end of the 2023 and spring of 2025.
Fincantieri has specified that the new units will accommodate about 4.300 passengers and they will be based on a project of next generation, becoming first of the fleet of Princess Cruises to being fed primariamente to natural gas which liquified (LNG). Draft of the technology of more advanced propulsion and to minor environmental impact of the naval industry, let alone of the more ecological fossil fuel to the world, that it will pull down the atmospheric emissions meaningfully and I use it of diesel oil.
"The revolutionary platform of these cruise ships of new generation fed to LNG - it has emphasized Jan Swartz, president of Princess Cruises - will introduce an innovative design and a new way to conceive the vacation for our hosts, an ulterior evolution of our offer. We are impatient to collaborate with Fincantieri in order translate in reality these ships of next generation and to deliver to our hosts excellent producing".
"We are proud.- the managing director of Fincantieri has commented, Giuseppe Bono - to ulteriorly extend consolidated ours partnership with Princess Cruises, a brand to which we are legacies from our return in the crocieristico section in 1990. After many years, we get ready with entering in a new era of our industry, more and more oriented to the reduction of the environmental impact, and we proudly make it with a project from absolute record, is for tonnage that for reached technological level. We are convinced that more meaningful goals do not exist acquired in order to restate the market leadership, that they allow to maintain to the relationship between our Country and the Carnival group, the greater foreign investor in Italy solid, and meanwhile to preserve competences and to increase the occupation".
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Fincantieri has signed with the crocieristica company Princess Cruises of the American group Carnival Corporation a memorandum of agreement for the construction near the yard of Monfalcone of two cruise ships of next generation from 175.000 tons of tonnage, that largest they will up to now be realized in Italy, with deliveries previewed at the end of the 2023 and spring of 2025. 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
