The tycoon Richard Branson announced on Tuesday the first cruise ship of Virgin Cruises will set sail from the port of Miami in 2020, 

The first cruise will tour the Caribbean with a home port Miami. Branson said he would like his ships to sail to ports in Cuba.

"Virgin Cruises plans to generate waves with an original and intimate experience," said Branson at a press conference in the Pérez Art Museum in Miami, where he arrived, true to his style, in a helicopter.

The company "will transform the experience of a cruise. The focus of Virgin Cruises will appeal to people who usually use cruise and no," Branson, founder of Virgin Group 62 years, which includes more than 400 companies said various sectors, from a railway company to an airline, through a bank or a cable operator.

The eccentric millionaire walked the few kilometers from the port of Miami and the museum in a helicopter, which came down dressed in a hat and shirt captain of a ship, but shorts and red boat shoes, accompanied by two models wearing tight costumes sailors.

Branson, who said that since 27 years dreamed of having a cruise company, commissioned the first three boats to the Italian company Fincantieri, which will deliver them to begin operating in 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively.

"We decided to go against the current trend of building megacruceros, so let's build boutique smaller boats," said the president of Virgin Cruises, Tom McAlpin. "We have deliberately chosen this size allow it to offer an excellent variety of experiences in a more intimate setting," he added.

Although the company revealed that the boats will have 110,000 tons, with 1,430 cabins which can travel about 2,800 passengers, with a crew of 1,150 people, he decided to keep secret the design sketches of ships and their technical characteristics.

"They are high-tech machines, with a level of entertainment and complex technological challenges, but I am sure that together we can develop something special," forward Vincenzo Petrone, chairman of Fincantieri.