Today in the Fincantieri shipyard in Genoa it is The delivery of the new cruise ship Explora II has taken place to the MSC Group's Explora Journeys company and was held also the ceremony of the laying of the coin of Explora III as well as the cutting of the first sheet metal of Explora IV, two other ships for the same company under construction in plant in the Ligurian capital. The new company Explora Journeys currently plans to equip itself with a fleet of six ships in the luxury segment, the first of which was delivered in July 2023, which are all made in Italy by Fincantieri and required a total investment of over €3.5 billion from MSC, of which around €500 million for Explora II.

Four of the ships in the fleet will be powered by gas and all will be ready to use bio-LNG and renewable synthetic LNG as a fuel, as soon as they will be available on a large scale for the maritime sector. Also the last two ships, Explora V and Explora VI in delivery in 2027 and 2028, provide for gas power liquefied natural. A project for equip them both with large fuel cells capable of transform renewable LNG into hydrogen, thereby reducing emissions.

Like Explora I, Explora II has a gross tonnage of 64 thousand tons, is equipped with 461 passenger suites and It will have a crew of 640 people.

On the occasion of today's ceremony, Christian Venzano, general secretary of Fim Cisl Liguria, highlighted the need to immediately finance the third phase of the capsizing into the sea, or of the expansion of the Genoese shipyard in Sestri Ponente: "All together - he said - we must now work a A goal also awaited by the workers. It is essential to bring at the end of the capsizing into the sea, completing all its phases and therefore the third must also be financed to make it possible to shipyard among the largest in Europe and doubling the production and employment capacity with important repercussions on the territory".