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Meyer Turku has delivered the new Costa Crociere Costa Smeralda cruise ship
It is before the fleet of the company to use the liquified natural gas as fuel
December 5, 2019
Today the Finnish ship yard Meyer Turku has delivered the new Costa Smeralda cruise ship to Costa Crociere, unit that is before the fleet of the company to use the liquified natural gas as fuel is in port is in navigation. "Costa Smeralda - he has emphasized the general manager of Costa Crociere, Neil Palomba - will give an ulterior impulse to uses it of the GNL applied to the cruise ships, a technology in which we have believed for first tracing a new broken in the crocieristico field. Our group - Paolomba has remembered - has invested in the construction very five new ships to GNL, guiding the industry towards a more and more sustainable tourism".
Costa Smeralda, in fact, takes part of plan of expansion that comprises a total of seven new ships in delivery within the 2023 for the group Coast, of which they take part of marks Costa Crociere, AIDA Cruises and Costa Asia, for a total investment of beyond six billions of euro. Of these ships, five, comprised Costa Smeralda and its binoculars Costa Toscana also it under construction near Meyer Turku with delivery previewed in 2021, will be fed to which liquified natural gas.
Thanks to the arrival of Costa Smeralda the fleet of the group Coast salt to 29 ships in service all of Italian flag. Costa Smeralda the yard of Turku in order to make broken towards the Mediterranean for three stages of presentation lascerà tomorrow the travel agents: Barcelona on 18 December, where it will come also carried out the which liquified natural gas refueling; Marseilles on 19 December; Savona on 20 December. On 21 December the ship will leave just from Savona for its first cruise of a week, that it will touch Marseilles, Barcelona, Palm of Majorca, Civitavecchia and La Spezia.
Costa Smeralda, of the tonnage of 183.900 tons, is long 337 meters, wide 42 meters and has an ability to about 6554 passengers and 1,646 members of the crew.
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Today the Finnish ship yard Meyer Turku has delivered the new Costa Smeralda cruise ship to Costa Crociere, unit that is before the fleet of the company to use the liquified natural gas as fuel is in port is in navigation. "Costa Smeralda - he has emphasized the general manager of Costa Crociere, Neil Palomba - will give an ulterior impulse to uses it of the GNL applied to the cruise ships, a technology in which we have believed for first tracing a new broken in the crocieristico field. Our group - Paolomba has remembered - has invested in the construction very five new ships to GNL, guiding the industry towards a more and more sustainable tourism".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
