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Meyer Werft delays the delivery to AIDA Cruises of the new AIDAnova cruise ship
Cancelled the pre-inaugural travels of the second half of November
October 25, 2018
The navalmeccanica society German Meyer Werft has announced today that it will have to delay the delivery to the AIDA Cruises company of the new AIDAnova ship, than will not be able so to carry out the programmed travels before the inaugural cruise that will have beginning next 2 December. Manifesting compunction for this delay, the managing director of the shipbuilding society, Tim Meyer, it has explained that the dismissal of the delivery is consequence of the complexity of the construction and the innovatività of the ship, than with a tonnage of 184 thousand tons it is the greatest cruise ship never constructed in Germany and the first cruise ship whose system of propulsion entirely is fed with which liquified natural gas, and has emphasized that they are necessary to test to bottom all the systems of edge to the aim to assure regular operation.
AIDA Cruises has announced to have informed own customers of the variations of the programming and the options of travel alternatives, specifying that the first planned travels of AIDAnova between on 15 November and on 2 December next will not be able to take place, while will on 2 December take place the maiden voyage with departure from Amburgo towards the Canarian Islands.
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