Carnival will order two new cruise ships of 99.500 and 145.000 tsl to Fincantieri



The American group Carnival Corporation will order estern to Fincantieri the construction of two ulterior destined cruise ships to the Holland America Line marks (HAL) and Princess Cruises. The two companies have undersigned an appropriate memorandum of agreement of the total value of beyond a billion of euro. The relative ones contracted will be subject to various conditions between which the financing to the shipowning group and it is previewed will be operating in the course of the first part of 2017.

Fincantieri has announced that the unit for HAL will be constructed near the plant of Marghera with delivery in 2021. With 99.500 tons of tonnage and an ability to 2.660 passengers, "Pinnacle" will be the third ship of the series after Koningsdam, delivered in March 2016, and Nieuw Statendam, that it will be completed in 2018, both near the yard navaledi Marghera, and will contain some of the innovative solutions already introduced in the class.

The unit for Princess Princess will be realized to Monfalcone and will enter to take part of the fleet of the shipowner in 2022. The ship will have a tonnage of about 145.000 tons and will be able to receive 3,660 passengers. It will be the sixth ship of the class "Royal" that has taken start with Royal Princess in 2013, continued with Regal Princess the next year and Majestic Princess, the first ship constructed from at the market Chinese destined Fincantieri, whose delivery is previewed at the end of March 2017. Others two twin units will be delivered by Fincantieri in 2019 and 2020.

"Extremely we are satisfied - the managing director of Carnival Corporation has declared, Arnold Donald - to announce these officially two new ships and to continue on the way of success of their twin units that our hosts already know. Our objective is to always exceed the expectations of 11,5 million the passengers who navigate with we every year, and these new ships will offer ulterior opportunities to our hosts, within a world-wide market of the cruises that is in fast expansion".

"The potenziamento of the fleet with new ships - Donald has explained - is an important part of our strategic ability to gradual increase, that it includes the substitution of the less efficient units with the other largest ones and than new generation".

"This - it has emphasized the managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono - is an extraordinary moment for the crocieristico section and is a satisfaction particular to be able to pick all the opportunities that derive from its increase, also thanks to the by now historical society with the Carnival group. These ships will be based on the platforms of success developed for Carnival. Today, thanks to those platforms of success, our group gets ready to meanwhile increase ulteriorly to a pocketbook orders from record, already making sure margins of profit in the field cruise".

Fincantieri has remembered that this agreement join to the historical program between the company and Carnival Corporation, that has carried in 2016 to the signature of five new units for various of the ten brands of the American group, than altogether have 102 ships in activity and others 19 under construction between 2017 and 2022.

Fincantiri has evidenced that the collaboration between the two colossus of the crocieristico field not only has a strategic valence for the shipbuilding one but for the entire Italian economy: the agreements in fact - it has found the company - in the long term delineate a plan of activity by one of the greater foreign investor in Italy, Carnival Corporation, that it has conveyed in the Country beyond 25 billion dollars by virtue of the partnership with Fincantieri. From the 1990 today Fincantieri in fact it has constructed 62 ships for the various brands of Carnival Corporation and others 11 units for the group are currently in the pocketbook orders of the society.