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Don Clark
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Here's the NCL press release:
http://www.ncl.com/news/pr/pr090706.htm
Excerpts:
The ships will be built for the company’s Norwegian Cruise Line brand (NCL) and will each be approximately 150,000 Gross Tons and 4,200 passenger berths. The order is firm for two ships for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2009 and the second quarter of 2010, and there is an option for a third sister ship for delivery in the first quarter of 2011. The contract price for each of the first two ships is €735 million, and for the optional third ship is €700 million.
Commenting on the order, Tan Sri K T Lim, chairman of NCL and Star Cruises, said: “This order, placed in NCL’s 40th anniversary year, marks the culmination of our plans to transform this great company. By 2010 there will be almost nothing left of the NCL we bought in 2000 except the name and the people, and in place of the old, mixed fleet we inherited, there will be the youngest, most innovative and exciting fleet in the industry.â€Â
NCL’s President and CEO, Colin Veitch, said: “This order is a strong statement of our confidence in the North American cruise industry and NCL’s leading role in it. Our U.S. flag start-up costs have obscured, for the past two years, the attractive financial returns on the international fleet of ships that we have built since Star Cruises bought NCL. All our growth from now on will be in this strongly profitable sector of our fleet, and will take us well past the goal we set ourselves of having the youngest fleet in the industry and a transformed financial profile by 2010.â€Â
By 2010 or 2011, the oldest NCL ship in service will be the Norwegiian Spirit, at 76,800 gross tons, which happens to be larger than the old SS Norway....
http://www.ncl.com/news/pr/pr090706.htm
Excerpts:
The ships will be built for the company’s Norwegian Cruise Line brand (NCL) and will each be approximately 150,000 Gross Tons and 4,200 passenger berths. The order is firm for two ships for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2009 and the second quarter of 2010, and there is an option for a third sister ship for delivery in the first quarter of 2011. The contract price for each of the first two ships is €735 million, and for the optional third ship is €700 million.
Commenting on the order, Tan Sri K T Lim, chairman of NCL and Star Cruises, said: “This order, placed in NCL’s 40th anniversary year, marks the culmination of our plans to transform this great company. By 2010 there will be almost nothing left of the NCL we bought in 2000 except the name and the people, and in place of the old, mixed fleet we inherited, there will be the youngest, most innovative and exciting fleet in the industry.â€Â
NCL’s President and CEO, Colin Veitch, said: “This order is a strong statement of our confidence in the North American cruise industry and NCL’s leading role in it. Our U.S. flag start-up costs have obscured, for the past two years, the attractive financial returns on the international fleet of ships that we have built since Star Cruises bought NCL. All our growth from now on will be in this strongly profitable sector of our fleet, and will take us well past the goal we set ourselves of having the youngest fleet in the industry and a transformed financial profile by 2010.â€Â
By 2010 or 2011, the oldest NCL ship in service will be the Norwegiian Spirit, at 76,800 gross tons, which happens to be larger than the old SS Norway....
