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Viking River Cruises has ordered two oceanic cruise ships of luxury to STX France
the store clerk includes an option for a third unit. The ships will be employed mainly in the Mediterranean
December 22, 2011
Viking Ocean Cruises, branch of Viking River Cruises, have ordered two oceanic cruise ships of luxury with option for a third unit to the STX France Cruise, participated French shipbuilding society with 66.7% from remaining group STX Europe and with 33.3% from the French State through bottom FSI (Fonds Stratégique d' Investissement). The ships will be delivered in the spring of 2014 and the spring of 2015.
The cruise ships will be long 230 meters, wide 26,5 meters, will be able to accommodate 888 passengers in 444 cabins and will have a crew of 444 people. The two new ships will be dedicated mainly to the customers of British and Australian nationality of Viking and will come employees in the Mediterranean above all.
Specifying that the contract is subject to the financing of the project, STX France has explained that the contract represents a total of about 2,5 million hours/job and that the construction of the ships will begin to half of the next september for the first unit and to half september 2013 for the second one.
Currently Viking has a sun fleet fluvial cruise ships constituted by 23 units to which eight fluvial ships join to others currently under construction.
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