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Celebrated to Monfalcone three stages of construction of three ships of the Princess Cruises
The Fincantieri group has in pocketbook others two new units for the company
February 14, 2019
Today in the ship yard of Monfalcone of the Fincantieri three stages of the construction of as many ships of class "Royal" of the company Princess Cruises of the group Carnival Corporation are celebrated. The day is begun with a link with the yard of Castellammare di Stabia where the cut of the first sheet of the sixth and last unit of the series "Royal" has held, still without name. The troncone, once completed, it will be transferred by the situated one lives to Monfalcone, where the ship will be completed in 2022.
Then one has held to Monfalcone, to the presence, between the others, of Jan Swartz, president of Princess Cruises and Carnival Australia, and Luigi Matarazzo, director of the Division Navi Mercantili di Fincantieri, the formulation of Enchanted Princess, fifth unit of the same series, that it will be delivered in 2020. In closing the ceremony in honor of the recent launch of Sky Princess, the whose income in service is previewed within the end of this year, and fourth has been carried out unit after Royal, Regal and Majestic that have taken the sea all from the plant isontino of the group.
To the conversion of the which signed memorandum of agreement last July(on 23 July 2018), moreover, the relationship between the yard of Monfalcone and Princess Cruises will continue with the construction of two cruise ships of next generation from 175.000 tons of tonnage, greatest up to now realized in Italy. The deliveries are previewed at the end of the 2023 and spring of 2025. The units will accommodate about 4.300 passengers and will be first of the fleet of the shipowner to being fed primariamente to which liquified natural gas.
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