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Agreement Royal Caribbean - Meyer Turku for the construction of a third cruise ship of 200 thousand tsl
It will be delivered in 2025
July 2, 2019
Royal Caribbean Cruises has signed an agreement with the Meyer Turku ship yard for the construction of a third cruise ship of class "Icon" to complete itself in the spring of 2025. As the others two tidy units previously, whose delivery is previewed in 2022 and in 2024(of 11 October 2016), the third unit will have a tonnage about 200 thousand tons and will have a fed propulsion to which liquified natural gas. The construction of the first ship of the series will be started the next spring and the three new ships will be introduced in the fleet of Royal Caribbean International, brand of the crocieristico group American.
The managing director of the Finnish ship yard, Jan Meyer, has emphasized with the understanding, that he is conditioned to the financing the shipowner, the pocketbook orders of the navalmeccanica society comes ulteriorly extended until 2025 giving stability in the long term to the ship yard and to the Finnish marine cluster.
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