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Viking Cruises announced the keel was laid for its first ocean cruise vessel, Viking Star, marking the next construction phase of the company’s first-ever ocean product. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, December 18, at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard outside Venice, Italy. Viking Star is scheduled to…
Seatrade is reporting that Fincanteri is currently working on a prototype for a new MSC Cruises vessel. The details are unknown at this time, however the size is estimated in the 150,000gt and over 308m loa.The ship with have the…
Viking Ocean Cruises, the blue water expansion of the popular Viking River Cruises, have announced that they have agreed to another 2 more ships to be delivered from Fincantieri. They will be sisters to the Viking Star class at 48,000…
It was just announced that ultra-luxary brand Seabourn cruises has a MOU in place for the construction of a 4th Odyssey class ship. The 32,000gt ship will be constructed at Italy’s Fincantieri yard. She has a planned entry into service…
Princess cruises newbuild will be launched roughly 2 weeks early, Fincantieri, the Italian yard that’s building her, announced today. Subsequently Princess also announced that instead of the inaugural on June 2, 2014, they have added to additional voyages. The new…
UPDATE: CruiseInds Shipyard Order Book has been updated to reflect these recent developments. Regent Seven Seas Cruises announced today that it has entered into a definitive contract with Italy’s Fincantieri shipyard to build the most luxurious cruise ship in the…
Fincantieri Cantieri Navali SpA of Monfalcone, Italy, have just handed the keys to Princess’ largest ship over to Princess Cruises. The final figures are in. She comes in at 141,000grt. 1082ft LOA. 124ft Beam. 1,780 pax cabins. Yeilding 3,560 pax…
The keel for P&O’s newest ship has just been laid down in a drydock in Monfalcone, Italy. Fincanteri will now start assembling what is essentially a sister to the Royal Princess, just tamed down a bit. She is on schedule…
Background Italy’s Fincantieri revealed a new concept ship at Cruise Shipping Miami 2013. Not too much information was made available. However since then, some information was able to leak out. Dubbed Project Mille, she encapsulates the wave of the future…
Via Princess: SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (March 26, 2013) – Regal Princess reached a significant construction milestone today when the Princess Cruises vessel was “floated out” at its building dock at the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy. A traditional ceremony marked the…
Viking Ocean Cruises agreed with Italy’s Fincanteri to build two new ships earlier this year. It looks like the decision was well like so far by both parties because they just agreed to build two additional with an option for…
Hot on the heels of NCL’s shocking newbuild order, industry giant Carnival has placed an order for a 135,000grt vessel for Carnival Cruise Lines. Scheduled to launch in 2016, she will represent a new class of vessel for the line.…
USA Today’s Gene Sloan was over in Italy recently to check on the progress of Princess’ newest ship, the Royal Princess. While touring Fincanteri, he was able to check out the glass-bottomed SeaWalk. Check out the photos here.
Italy’s Fincanteri Shipyard just launched the Royal Princess. Check out the most complete photo we have yet of her!
After falling through with STX yards and switching the bid to Italy’s Fincanteri, the contract was officially signed. The contract calls for 2, 47,000grt ships with a capacity of about 944.
The 130,000-ton Carnival Breeze, conducts sea trials in the Adriatic Sea in preparation for its inaugural June 3 voyage from Venice, Italy. More photos below:
Back in December, Viking River Cruises surprised the industry when they announced that they will build 2 new 888pax ocean going ships in STX France yards. This will be the lines first attempt in blue water cruising. Around a week…
Buzz on the floor today is after leaders from major European shipyards heavily criticized the Mitsubishi deal with AIDA. They claimed that that the pricing model of the AIDA ship is “unstable”. Corrado Antonini, Fincantieri chairman Mitsubishi has come up…
Carnival Corp. announced 2 newbuild agreements they entered into. The first deal inked with Carnival Favorite Fincanteri, calls for one ship for Italian/European brand Costa Crociere. The unnamed vessel will come in at 132,500grt. making her the largest for Costa…
(Click for larger) Is this the new princess newbuild? It could be. This new ship will be the largest Princess ship to date. She made news the other day when Carnival and Princess firmed up the order for her and…