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MSC plans to build two cruise ships with capacity of 4000 gussets

MSC Cruises, a few months after the baptism of its twelfth ship MSc preziosa is ready to launch a new development plan for the fleet. The executive chairman of the company, Pierfrancesco Vago, on the sidelines of the fair cruise Seatrade Europe in Hamburg in progress, announced: "The next order of MSC Cruises will come soon," writes Mf. 

"To the order we are considering all three European shipyards available: Stx (France and Finland), Meyer Werft and Fincantieri" says Vago, but to build the new class of ships badged MSc, will most likely STX France. The negotiations had left parallel to the construction of Precious, the ship was born from the idea of taking over Gaddafi junior and then from Msc. After months of comparisons, the agreement, it appears to the nineteenth century , would be found for at least two ships in the first phase of the contract. The company needs them to attack new markets and to position themselves with an innovative product. The announcement and the simultaneous start of the order should arrive by the end of the year and at the latest in early 2014.

 

The head of Mediterranean shipping company, Gianluigi Aponte, last spring had explained that "for a cruise company that wants to be the current global fleet of 12 ships is not enough."