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The name change was made to reflect that a journey aboard a Virgin ship will be more than just a cruise; it will be transformative, Virgin Voyages CEO Tom McAlpin said.
"It should be a departure from the ordinary getaway," McAlpin told the media.
The company also announced it has signed a shipbuilding contract with Fincantieri, which will build all three of the ships to debut between 2020 and 2022. The three vessels will be identical, coming in at 110,000 tons and holding 2,700 passengers. The first will sail out of Miami, while the homeports for the other two have yet to be announced.
McAlpin said ship delivery is on pace, and steel-cutting -- the first step in ship construction -- for the first ship will take place early next year. The keel-laying, when the ship's first block is set in place, is scheduled for late 2017.
Virgin Voyages also announced a multimillion-dollar partnership with Swedish clean-energy company Climeon. Virgin will install Climeon Ocean, a system that will to turn waste into clean electricity, thereby reducing carbon footprint, on all three ships.
According to Virgin, the system will eliminate about 5,400 tons of carbon dioxide per ship per year.
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I like the renderings, the ships look like Art Deco trains, although I bet the real ships will look a lot more conventional.
See: https://youtu.be/-hXpfmCnB_0
[ 10-20-2016: Message edited by: Malcolm @ cruisepage ]
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quote:Originally posted by Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES:They could call at his own island !
Nice idea, but 2700 people dropping in on Necker will never work, one it's not big enough and two, the people paying $27,000 for a week there may have a small issue with it.
We did a buffet lunch and swimming trip ashore for just 150 passengers, although we had about 1000 passengers on board, having been chartered by the Australian magazine ' Woman's Weekly ' for a round trip to the UK from Australia.
We did a lucky dip draw to decide who would go ashore at Bali so numbers going ashore can be limited and it would encourage people to try again to get ashore on another cruise with Virgin ! .
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