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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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Member # 301

posted 10-20-2016 06:05 PM

On the 6th April 2016, MSC Cruises announced that the STX France shipyard would be building up to four new class cruise ships for them, called the "World Class".

These would be delivered between 2022 and 2026.

Interestingly MSC's ship will be powered by Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) fuel, like Carnival's proposed megaships for Aida, Costa and P&O and Royal Caribbean's project 'Icon' ships.

MSC's 'World Class' ships will over 200,000 gross tons.

No renderings have yet been released of MSC's 'World Class'.

In 2013 STX came up with a ship 'concept' called the 'XP Tray' which they revealed at the annual Miami 'Seatrade' show. It was an alternative design to Oasis, a mega-ship of around 200,000 gt powered by LNG fuel.

As you can see form the slide-show below, there are definitely similarities between the 'concept' and the basic facts that we know about the MSC's 'World Class'.

See here: https://youtu.be/kabY2SCAhfM

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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posted 10-23-2016 12:54 PM

Any comments?

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PamM
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posted 10-23-2016 04:15 PM

I don't know Malcolm, the renderings look Seaside'ish too to me. I thought they were going to be dual fuelled? All these LNG storage facilities will need to be built around the world or destinations will be limiting.

Pam

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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posted 11-12-2016 05:13 AM

I suppose the big ports will have to offer LNG when big players like Carnival (Costa, Aida, P&O, MSC) demand LNG.

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