Thread: MSC Serenata (New for 2009)

MSC SERENATA
Super cruiser of previewed the Msc fleet the delivery in 2009


Msc Serenata is the name of one of the two superships from cruise of which it has been announced to Paris the agreement for the construction from Msc Cruises and Marine the French yards Alstom. The two new ships of last generation will enter to make part of the fleet of the company of the shipowner Gianluigi Aponte between 2008 and 2009. Largest they will be never constructed for one Italian company of cruises. The agreement has been rendered famous from Vague Pierfrancesco , General executive manager MSC Cruises and from Patrick Boissier , Marine President of Alstom and represents the more important never contracted signed from the French yards. MSC Fantasy and MSC Serenata will be the larger ships of Europe; for an investment of beyond 1 billion euro MSC Cruises it will carry, therefore, to 11 units the own fleet within 2010. MSC Serenata will join to the fleet in March of 2009. "With the income of MSC Fantasy and MSC Serenata - Vague Pierfrancesco has declared - we will be able to accommodate within 2010 beyond 900.000 customers on ships of last generation with an only style of elegance and design, that it will render unmistakable and ineguagliabile the fleet of MSC Cruises for quality and level of service on all the seas of the world".

Technical characteristics MSC SERENATA

• Delivery: March 2009
• Tonnage: 133,500 GRT
• Length: 333 meters
• Width: 38 meters
• Speed: 23 nodes
• Cabins: 1,650 cabins of which 1,260 with balcony
• Standard: Post-Panamax
• Passengers: 3,900 passengers
• Crew: 1,313 members of crew

This vessel has been renamed the MSC Splendida.