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quote:3.3.2008Aker Yards and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. have reached an understanding regarding the basis on which Royal Caribbean will order a fourth ship in the Freedom class -- currently the world's largest cruise ship. The vessel would be delivered in the second half of 2011. The placement of the order is still subject to a number of conditions, including board approval and finalization of terms and conditions. Aker Yards, has previously delivered two of these record breaking cruise ships, and will deliver the third ship in April this year from its yard in Turku. This fourth vessel is scheduled to be delivered second half 2011. The Freedom class vessels will be 126 feet by 1,112 feet (38.6 meters by 339 meters), and will stand 18 decks high. Their gross tonnage is 158.000. The ships will carry 3,600 guests, and 1,400 crew members.
Aker Yards and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. have reached an understanding regarding the basis on which Royal Caribbean will order a fourth ship in the Freedom class -- currently the world's largest cruise ship. The vessel would be delivered in the second half of 2011. The placement of the order is still subject to a number of conditions, including board approval and finalization of terms and conditions.
Aker Yards, has previously delivered two of these record breaking cruise ships, and will deliver the third ship in April this year from its yard in Turku. This fourth vessel is scheduled to be delivered second half 2011. The Freedom class vessels will be 126 feet by 1,112 feet (38.6 meters by 339 meters), and will stand 18 decks high. Their gross tonnage is 158.000. The ships will carry 3,600 guests, and 1,400 crew members.
Right now Freedom 4 just finished step 4 and needs RCCLs approval. I don't expect RCCL to agree to a contract until Oasis is open for booking, that way they can estimate future earnings when deciding to spend more cash. They will probably want to have construction follow the two Genesis ships so I would expect a deal signed by August 09 at the latest.
[ 07-30-2008: Message edited by: DEIx15x8 ]
quote:Originally posted by DEIx15x8:You are partially right. Freedom 4 is not ordered but in the process. Ordering a ship requires several steps....[ 07-30-2008: Message edited by: DEIx15x8 ]
quote:Originally posted by AKer builder:Actually most people on the yard don't belive enimoore that F4 will be ordered.It was a important condition that IOTS delivered on time, we did it one dady ahead, but still nothing.There allso another angle, with oasis was set several new safety standards and F4 should include all that, basically it means to redesign whole F4, witch is to expensive.On the other hand there is rumours goin'g around that last oasis ship leave yard in year 2015.Personally i like it better
I knew this would happen, and with the economy today I think it's better not to order a fourth Freedom class until it is safe to do so. What I think is better is to begin research and design of a post-Radiance based on the Solstice-class to be launched around the 2015's, maybe they are already working on this.
2015? That's a long wait, from pictures and everything else I would think Oasis is up to date on construction. Hopefully not but maybe a small delay like what happened with Voyager.
What has changed in the regulations between Freedom and Oasis. It seems like Oasis pushed the regulations to allow more stuff rather than changing what is required. Are these actually just things that were invented for Oasis that would be good to have in all new builds rather than something that is a law?
2015, for some of us it means "MAYBE" 4 more Oasis ships, at least it sounds good, butit only a rumour!
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