Fincantieri deal for cruise ship
ITALIAN cruise operator Costa Crociere, has exercised an option with Fincantieri for the construction of a new 92,700-gt cruise ship. The vessel, which is scheduled for delivery in March 2010, will be built at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard, at an all-in cost of about $556M. The vessel will have 2,260 lower passenger berths and a total of 1,130 cabins, (772 of which will have private verandas) that being the highest percentage of veranda cabins in the Costa fleet. It will be the sister ship of another 92,700-gt vessel, already announced, also to be built in Marghera and scheduled to enter service in spring 2009.
Etiquetas: cruise market, cruises, new buildings